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Melissa Griffin

Unicef adolescents data: what is the state of the world for teenagers? - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cef-world-children-adolescents

1. Poverty and Hunger 2. Primary Education 4. Reduce Child Mortality Adolescents MDG Data Guardian

shared by Melissa Griffin on 24 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Melissa Griffin on 24 Nov 11
     
    The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?
Clint Hamada

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

www.childinfo.org/education.html

3. Gender Equality 2. Primary Education statistics

shared by Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11 - Cached
  • 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
  • Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11
     
    universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.
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