With five years to reach the deadline set by the United Nations, known as "millennium goals" remain to be unfulfilled. Recently, Ban Ki-Moon has called a summit in New York from 20 to 22 September to give the necessary impetus to these issues, something that was needed.
The protection of women and children is paramount within eight points that the UN considers key to global development. To eliminate discrimination on grounds of sex, the organization has three goals: to eliminate disparities in access to different levels of education, increase the number of women in wage employment and increase the proportion of seats they hold in national parliaments.
However, as our blog has been reporting from the beginning, there remains a large number of women in African and Asian countries that are forced to leave school and marry before reaching adulthood. Others do not have the necessary resources and must work to help their families.
This is not the only point with a limp. In advanced countries like ours, many women continue to earn less for the same job as a man and the number of females in senior positions remains very low. The only place where change is in politics, because it gives more votes to sell support for women, provides more jobs. Parity only looks at the number, not the person is competent to hold office, which is discriminatory to both men and women.
Furthermore, the millennium goals wanted to reduce child mortality raised for children under five years between 1990 and 2015 in two-thirds. According to the report, 30,000 children die per day that have not reached this age. The lack of medicines and malnutrition are often the main causes of this very high mortality. Obviously, spending on hospitals and improving hygienic conditions is still remarkable. However, while poor people remain the most difficult to reach with this progress, thousands of children continue to die every day.
There are now five years, long time yet to really achieve results if governments and international organizations fail to commit to things and begin to fulfill them.
The protection of women and children is paramount within eight points that the UN considers key to global development. To eliminate discrimination on grounds of sex, the organization has three goals: to eliminate disparities in access to different levels of education, increase the number of women in wage employment and increase the proportion of seats they hold in national parliaments.
However, as our blog has been reporting from the beginning, there remains a large number of women in African and Asian countries that are forced to leave school and marry before reaching adulthood. Others do not have the necessary resources and must work to help their families.
This is not the only point with a limp. In advanced countries like ours, many women continue to earn less for the same job as a man and the number of females in senior positions remains very low. The only place where change is in politics, because it gives more votes to sell support for women, provides more jobs. Parity only looks at the number, not the person is competent to hold office, which is discriminatory to both men and women.
Furthermore, the millennium goals wanted to reduce child mortality raised for children under five years between 1990 and 2015 in two-thirds. According to the report, 30,000 children die per day that have not reached this age. The lack of medicines and malnutrition are often the main causes of this very high mortality. Obviously, spending on hospitals and improving hygienic conditions is still remarkable. However, while poor people remain the most difficult to reach with this progress, thousands of children continue to die every day.
There are now five years, long time yet to really achieve results if governments and international organizations fail to commit to things and begin to fulfill them.
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