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2. Nearly 120 million children of primary school age remain
out of school; these children are working children,
children affected by HIV/AIDS, children whose lives are
affected by conflict and disability, children of the poor or
minorities, and rural children.
3. At least one third of the 190 million working children aged
10 to 14 in developing countries have no access to basic
education or health care. Uncounted millions in the same
age group are receiving an education of poor quality.
4. Adult literacy, however measured, is also critically
important. Recent assessments suggest that there has
been modest progress towards the goal of adult literacy,
with slight decline in illiteracy rates throughout the world.
5. While global economic production has tripled since 1980,
the gap between the average incomes of the wealthiest
20% and the poorest 20% has more than doubled and
continues to widen.
6. More than 1.2 billion people in the world lack safe
drinking water and nearly 3 billion do not have access to
adequate sanitation. These two conditions alone pose
serious consequences for development and contribute to
an estimated 25000 people per day dying from diseases
caused by contaminated water or food.
7. HIV and AIDS pose an enormous danger to the
achievement of the world's goals for education. In the
worst affected areas, the demand for education is on the
wane because families and communities are increasingly
poor, dispirited, and devastated. Education is an essential
need both for both combating HIV and AIDS and
responding to the needs of children, families and
communities affected by the pandemic.
These human conditions can be viewed from socio-cultural,
political and economic perspectives, and may be framed in the
context of science-technology-society (STS) issues. When society
fails to care for the environment that sustains it, when its
population increases beyond the capacity of the land and water to
provide adequate food for all, when the disparity between the
haves and have-nots widens into a gulf of social injustice, the
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