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Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Education - Overview - 3 views

  • achieving two of them – universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) – is vital to meeting all the others.
  • getting girls into school and ensuring that they stay there has what UNICEF calls a "multiplier effect."
  • Educating a girl dramatically reduces the chance that her child will die before age five
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  • Of the 68 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls (UNESCO Data Centre 2010).  Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls
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    universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.
Clint Hamada

7 billion human beings: Why gender equality matters more than ever! « Gender-... - 3 views

  • Especially for girls and young women,  access to family planning, to contraception, to education and to the formal labour market is crucial not only for improving their own living conditions, but also in terms of demographic dynamics.
  • improving women’s access to the formal labour market as well as to health care and education is particularly important, as investments in these areas are likely to lead to later marriages, less teenage pregnancies and more stable family structures.
Clint Hamada

Gender Equality in Vietnam - wikigender.org - 1 views

  • it was only in 2006 that the National Assembly passed the country’s first ever Law on Gender Equality.
  • The Marriage and Family Law sets the minimum marriage age to 18 for women and 20 for men
Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Millennium Development Goals - Overview - 2 views

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    3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Melissa Griffin

StatPlanet Map Maker - Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software - 0 views

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    StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.
John Haug

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? - 2 views

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    Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
graemefoster

Education For All - the next goal - 2 views

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    Infographic on the inter-disciplinary impact of education.
kels_giroux

Oxfam Education: Resources index | Change the World in Eight Steps - 6 views

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    Posters, lesson ideas, and information on MDGS
Melissa Griffin

OECD video on busan and MDG progress - short and good - 3 views

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    With some two billion people living in poverty, without clean water and sanitation or access to schooling and healthcare, it's clear that development has to work better to improve people's lives. The Forth High-level Forum in Busan aims to make that happen.
Andrea Law

United Nations in Vietnam - 3 views

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    This website is the UN in Vietnam and looks at each MDG from a local perspective!
Andrea Law

WorldMapper - 7 views

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    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
John Haug

Female Education Reduces Infant and Childhood Deaths - 3 views

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    The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women. In all countries worldwide, whether females increase schooling from 10 years to 11, say, or two years to three, infant mortality declines, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Melissa Griffin

100 People: A World Portrait - 3 views

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    Bill Gates meets 10 Intel ISEF studentsat Techonomy for the 100 People project The 100 People Foundation is a global education toolbox. By framing the world population as a community of 100 people, we help students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share.
Melissa Griffin

Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views

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    Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
Melissa Griffin

Why can't kids have school in Afghanistan? - sherry cherry BOOM BOOM! XD - 3 views

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    IStudent blog - G07 - From all the questions available, I was really interested in the question, "Why can't they have school in Afghanistan?"
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