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Gender Equality in Vietnam - wikigender.org - 1 views

www.wikigender.org/...Vietnam 3. Gender Equality Vietnam
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  • 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
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IB Global Engage - 0 views

globalengage.ibo.org 1. Poverty and Hunger
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  • Andrea Law on 08 Dec 11
     
    Welcome to the Global Engage website, which supports members of the IB community, and particularly teachers, in engaging with our global world. Here you will find information, resources, ideas and opinions, links, and suggestions for action concerned with global issues - and reports of actions taken by the IB community.
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Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Millennium Development Goals - Overview - 2 views

www.childinfo.org/mdg.html 3. Gender Equality Iindicators of success
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  • Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11
     
    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
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Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Education - Overview - 3 views

www.childinfo.org/education.html 3. Gender Equality 2. Primary Education statistics
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  • 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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FAO: FAO Home - 0 views

www.fao.org 1. Poverty and Hunger 7. Environmental Sustainability
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  • kels_giroux on 02 Dec 11
     
    Food and Agriculture Org of the UN
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UNEP Multimedia - Home - 1 views

www.unep.org/...multimedia environment multimedia 7. Environmental Sustainability 8. Partnership for Development 1. Poverty and Hunger
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  • kels_giroux on 02 Dec 11
     
    United Nations Environment Programme - lots of digital resources here including videos, animations and podcasts
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The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...21541015 africa economy the economist 1. Poverty and Hunger 8. Partnership for Development 7. Environmental Sustainability
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  • kels_giroux on 02 Dec 11
     
    Interesting article about Africa's rising economy. Great teacher resource - possible student use (sections?). Thanks Jackson for the tip!
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UN: farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...armers-produce-food-population 1. Poverty and Hunger UNIS MYP IDU Guardian
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  • Melissa Griffin on 28 Nov 11
     
    The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's growing population is to be fed.
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Guardian Data Blog - The 1% - Occupy Movement - 0 views

gu.com/33dg5 1. Poverty and Hunger 8. Partnership for Development MDG Guardian Data
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  • Melissa Griffin on 24 Nov 11
     
    Looks at where the wealth is and how the rich are spending even more in "tough times"
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Why can't kids have school in Afghanistan? - sherry cherry BOOM BOOM! XD - 3 views

blogs.swa-jkt.com/...ids-have-school-in-afghanistan 2. Primary Education 3. Gender Equality MDG blog student blog
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  • Melissa Griffin on 24 Nov 11
     
    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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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
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  • 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?
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