The State of the World's Children 2007 reports on the lives of women around the world because gender equality and the well-being of children go hand in hand. When women are empowered to live full and productive lives, children prosper and UNICEF's experience also shows the opposite: When women are denied equal opportunity within a society, children suffer. The report is divided into five sections: a call for equality; equality in the household; equality in employment; equality in politics and government; reaping the double dividend of gender equality.
While cities have long been associated with employment, development and economic growth, hundreds of millions of children in the world's urban areas are growing up amid scarcity and deprivation. This publication presents the hardships these children face as violations of their rights, as well as impediments to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals. It examines major phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban settings, including migration, economic shocks and acute disaster risk. It also provides examples of efforts to improve the urban realities that children confront and identifies broad policy actions that should be included in any strategy to reach excluded children and foster equity in urban settings driven by disparity.
The State of the World's Children 2007 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. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) forward, and shows how investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.
Annotation. The State of the World's Children 2007 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. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) forward, and shows how investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.
Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide. Fifteen hundred women die every day while giving birth. That's a half a million mothers every year. UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2009, addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.The difference in pregnancy risk between women in developing countries and their peers in the industrialised world is often termed the greatest health divide in the world. A woman in Niger has a one in seven chance of dying during the course of her lifetime from complications during pregnancy or delivery. That's in stark contrast to the risk for mothers in America, where it's one in 4,800 or in Ireland, where it's just one in 48,000. Addressing that gap is a multidisciplinary challenge, requiring an emphasis on education, human resources, community involvement and social equality. At a minimum, women must be guaranteed antenatal care, skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetrics, and postpartum care. These essential interventions will only be guaranteed within the context of improved education and the abolition of discrimination.
A CALL FOR EQUALITY: Gender discrimination across the life cycle, Gender discrimination and inequalities across regions EQUALITY IN THE HOUSEHOLD: Domestic violence against children, Grandmothers and HIV/AIDS, Mother centres in central and Eastern Europe and the Gambia EQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT: Do girls risk missing out on school when women work? The impact of family-friendly workplaces in industrialized countries, Child labour: are girls affected differently from boys? QUALITY IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: Women and politics: realities and myths, Women's groups: a force for political change, Women and the Darfur Peace Agreement, Women as mediators and peacekeepers, The hope of justice for Bolivia's women and children REAPING THE DOUBLE DIVIDEND OF GENDER EQUALITY: Partnerships for girls' education, Monitoring governments' commitments to women's empowerment through gender-responsive budgets, Partnering to promote child rights and gender equality in political agendas, Quotas: one size does not fit all, Women's participation in community based initiatives across the developing world, Challenging gender stereotypes and changing attitudes in Brazil and other countries, Partnering to provide improved estimates of maternal mortality. Statistical Tables: Under five mortality rankings, Basic indicators, Nutrition, Health, HIV/AIDS, Education, Demographic indicators, Economic indicators, Women, Child protection, Measuring human development, Rate of progress.
