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CONTENTS With a foreword by Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1 TO JUMP-START DEVELOPMENT Page 1 2 EDUCATED GIRLS, A UNIQUELY POSITIVE FORCE FOR DEVELOPMENT Page 17 3 GIRLS LEFT OUT, COUNTRIES LEFT BEHIND Page 31 Panels Boxes Maps 1 The acceleration strategy: 25 by 2005......................................................3 2 Education, rights holders and duty bearers ............................................9 3 Egypt: Dreams realized ............................................................................19 4 The ‘karate girls’ of Bihar, India ..............................................................25 5 Goodbye to school fees ..........................................................................35 6 The Fast-Track Initiative ..........................................................................39 7 Teachers spark hope ................................................................................47 8 African countries move closer to education goals................................53 9 Turkey: A school play touches a nation ................................................61 10 Sudan: The community that made a difference ....................................65 11 Afghanistan: Coming back ......................................................................73 1 United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative ................................................5 2 Children out of school................................................................................7 3 The Indicative Framework of the FTI ......................................................38 4 The Global Campaign on Education update ..........................................41 5 Male/female net school attendance ........................................................61 6 Budgets and human rights ......................................................................77 7 A child-friendly school ............................................................................89 Pictorial representations of the indices that illustrate the relationship of girls’ education, gender equality and women’s empowerment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals 1 Poverty and hunger..................................................................................14 2 Primary education ....................................................................................28 3 Child mortality ..........................................................................................42 4 Maternal health ........................................................................................56 5 HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases....................................................68 6 Environmental sustainability ..................................................................80 iv CONTENTS
4 THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT OF EDUCATING GIRLS 5 WHAT ABOUT BOYS? 6 THE RIGHT THING TO DO Page 45 Page 59 Page 71 Figures Annexes 1 Projections for the Millennium Development Goals ..............................6 2 Trends in gender disparities ....................................................................12 3 IMF/World Bank loans versus growth ....................................................22 4 Human development and economic growth ........................................23 5 Double jeopardy ......................................................................................27 6 Primary net enrolment/attendance rates................................................32 7 Primary-school-completion progress ....................................................33 8 Female participation in secondary education........................................36 9 Children’s opinions on gender and education ......................................39 10 Government expenditure on education in East Asia and Pacific ........40 11 Orphans less likely to attend school ......................................................50 A A solution to almost every problem ......................................................83 B Human rights-based approach: Statement of common understanding ................................................91 References ......................................................................................................94 Tables 1 Basic Indicators ......................................................................................102 2 Nutrition ..................................................................................................106 3 Health ......................................................................................................110 4 HIV/AIDS ..................................................................................................114 5 Education ................................................................................................118 6 Demographic indicators ........................................................................122 7 Economic indicators ..............................................................................126 8 Women ....................................................................................................130 9 Child protection ......................................................................................134 10 The rate of progress ..............................................................................138 Index ..............................................................................................................142 Glossary ........................................................................................................147 THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2004 v
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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
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
Page 53 and 54: 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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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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