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Thank you This report has been prepared with the help of many people and organizations, including the following UNICEF field offices: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caribbean Area Office, Central Asian Republics and Kazakhstan, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, India, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Romania, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Timor-Leste, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen. Input was also received from UNICEF regional offices and Supply Division Copenhagen, Denmark. © The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2003 Permission to reproduce any part of this publication is required. Please contact the Editorial and Publications Section, Division of Communication, UNICEF NY (3 UN Plaza, NY, NY 10017) USA, Tel: 212-326-7434 or 7286, Fax: 212-303-7985, E-mail: nyhqdoc.permit@unicef.org. Permission will be freely granted to educational or non-profit organizations. Others will be requested to pay a small fee. The Library of Congress has catalogued this serial publication as follows: The State of the World’s Children 2004 UNICEF, UNICEF House, 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA E-mail: pubdoc@unicef.org Website: www.unicef.org Cover photo: © UNICEF/HQ03-0376/Ami Vitale ISBN 92-806-3784-5
THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2004 Girls, education and development Carol Bellamy Executive Director United Nations Children’s Fund
Page 1: THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN
Page 5 and 6: 4 THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT OF EDUCATIN
Page 7 and 8: FOREWORD Within a family, there are
Page 9 and 10: In the Millennium Declaration of Se
Page 11 and 12: The most urgent goal of all More im
Page 13 and 14: global and country levels 6 (see Pa
Page 15 and 16: children out of school). At any mom
Page 17 and 18: Parents often do not realize that g
Page 19 and 20: that is needed to overcome the obst
Page 21 and 22: have acknowledged that education is
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Page 25 and 26: Education is everybody’s human ri
Page 27 and 28: The multiplier effect. Education ha
Page 29 and 30: This view of growth as central to d
Page 31 and 32: ment that was born of it, recognize
Page 33 and 34: gling with the decision as to wheth
Page 35 and 36: le jeopardy: because of their gende
Page 39 and 40: What is the scale of the problem th
Page 41 and 42: mostly report on averages and thus
Page 43 and 44: learning achievement. In many cases
Page 45 and 46: that have achieved gender parity is
Page 47 and 48: FIGURE 9 CHILDREN’S OPINIONS ON G
Page 49 and 50: There are recent, tentatively hopef
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The benefits of educating girls are
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that such programmes establish the
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in Zambia fell by almost half among
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HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. Som
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Tree Initiative in several other co
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if the extra income is channelled t
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THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN
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Making schools and education system
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having boys look after family cattl
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as boys achieved better results in
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graduated have gained significant s
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In Brazil, too, boys’ problems wi
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Girls’ education is a dream inves
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go to school was overwhelming. UNIC
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the outcome would be better for all
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BOX 6 BUDGETS AND HUMAN RIGHTS A hu
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An unfinished piece of 20th century
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While one cannot assume that all wo
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Enabling young mothers to return to
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community meeting, where women disc
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ANNEX B THE HUMAN RIGHTS- BASED APP
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In addition, it is essential that 1
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27. Spogárd, René and Meril James
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94. Zarchin, Jill, Tin Mar Aung and
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General note on the data The data p
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TABLE 1. BASIC INDICATORS Countries
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TABLE 1. BASIC INDICATORS Under-5 m
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TABLE 2. NUTRITION Countries and te
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TABLE 2. NUTRITION % of infants wit
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TABLE 3. HEALTH Countries and terri
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TABLE 3. HEALTH % of population usi
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TABLE 4. HIV/AIDS Countries and ter
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TABLE 4. HIV/AIDS Adult prevalence
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TABLE 5. EDUCATION Countries and te
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TABLE 5. EDUCATION Countries and te
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TABLE 6. DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS Cou
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TABLE 6. DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS Pop
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TABLE 7. ECONOMIC INDICATORS Countr
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TABLE 7. ECONOMIC INDICATORS GNI pe
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TABLE 8. WOMEN Countries and territ
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TABLE 8. WOMEN Life expectancy: fem
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TABLE 9. CHILD PROTECTION Child lab
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Regional summaries Regional average
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TABLE 10. THE RATE OF PROGRESS Coun
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TABLE 10. THE RATE OF PROGRESS Unde
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INDEX Afghanistan, 4, 73-75 Africa,
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and budgets, 77 and economic develo
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United Nations Development Assistan
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