AFRO-NETS> The State of the World's Children 1999 Report - online

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@harare.iafrica.com>]

The State of the World's Children 1999 Report - online
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Nearly a billion people will enter the 21st century unable to read a 
book or sign their names and two thirds of them are women. And they 
will live, as now, in more desperate poverty and poorer health than 
those who can. They are the world's functional illiterates - and 
their numbers are growing.

The total includes more than 130 million school age children, 73 mil-
lion of them girls, who are growing up in the developing world with-
out access to basic education. Millions of others languish in sub-
standard schools where little learning takes place.

The State of the World's Children 1999 report, by Carol Bellamy, 
calls for an expansion of the education revolution that is occurring 
throughout the world. This revolution has two standards - access to 
high-quality learning and a child right's approach. The report high-
lights key examples both of individual schools and of entire national 
education systems that are putting these standards into practice. All 
that is lacking, the report argues, is the political will and the 
requisite resources to extend these educational benefits to all the 
world's children.

The report is available on the Internet at:

http://www.unicef.org/sowc99/

and can be downloaded in Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format.


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