Over in parts of Asia parents are selling their children into the sex slave industry because they are in such extreme poverty. The UN wants women to have equal education as males. The UN’s third goal is to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015. The world has achieved equality in primary education between girls and boys, but only 2 out of 130 countries have achieved that target at all levels of education. 40 out of every 100 wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector were held by women in 2011. This was a significant improvement since 1990. Violence against women is a major problem in the world. Women have no voice in their governments. In Africa everyone 1 in 10 children die before 5, and in the middle east it's 1 in 16. The mortality rate has dropped by over 47%. Children die from preventable diseases. 17,000 fewer children per day have been saved from these sicknesses. Babies have a higher percentage now of dying in the first month of their life than back then. 6.6 million children died in the first five years of their life last year. The number of mothers that die after child birth have almost split in half since what it was back then. The number of mothers dying after birth is 15x higher than in developed countries. Family planning is starting to become more common. Babies are being delivered by untrained people, and that is also killing mothers. The UN wants to halve the amount of HIV and AIDS. These diseases that attack your immune system. 2.5 new infections each year. Sleeping under insecticide treated bug nets can help prevent bugs carrying malaria from getting to you.
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