Girls can't wait: why girls' education matters, and how to make it happen now
This is the year that the world will miss the first, and most critical of all the Millennium Development Goals - gender parity in education by 2005.
This is the year that the world will miss the first, and most critical of all the Millennium Development Goals - gender parity in education by 2005.
Children make up half the population of many African countries, and the proportion is growing. Yet, when it comes to decisions about Africa's problems and its future, they are rarely central to the debate.
This report is designed for policy makers and program managers and is essentially an informative advocacy document.
This report, published by UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA, is a call to action to address the triple threat of gender inequality, poverty and HIV/AIDS.
The catastrophe of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in Africa, which has already claimed over 18 million lives on that continent, has hit girls and women harder than boys and men.
This document presents an overview for action to help children in difficult circumstances overcome the discrimination and hardships brought about by HIV/AIDS.
In the decade ahead, HIV/AIDS is expected to kill ten times more people than conflict. In conflict situations, children and young people are most at risk from both HIV/AIDS infection and violence.