PHA-Exchange> The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children - The double dividend of gender equality

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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
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The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children - The double dividend of gender equality

 

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2006

 

Available online as PDF file [160p.] at: http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/docs/sowc07.pdf 

 

"..The 2007 State of the World's Children report examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives, and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. 

 

The State of the World's Children 2007 reports on the lives of women around the world for a  simple reason: Gender equality and the well-being of children go hand in hand. When women are empowered to live full and productive lives, children prosper. UNICEF's experience also shows the opposite: When women are denied equal opportunity within a society, children suffer. Working within countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 - promoting gender equality and empowering women - will reap the double dividend of bettering the lives of both women and children.

 

It will also contribute to achieving all the other goals, from reducing poverty and hunger to saving children's lives, improving maternal health, ensuring universal education, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing new and innovative partnerships for development. Despite the international community's commitment to gender equality, the lives of millions of women and girls throughout the world are plagued by discrimination, disempowerment and poverty. 

 

This report illustrates the many challenges that remain. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the AIDS pandemic. Many girls are forced into child marriages, some before they are 15 years old. Maternal mortality figures remain indefensibly high in many countries. In most places, women earn less than men for equal work. Around the world, millions of women and girls suffer from physical and sexual violence, with little recourse to justice and protection.."

 
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