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Clint Hamada

What are the MDGs? - 0 views

  • At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to reach the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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
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.
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