{"id":84959,"date":"2020-03-13T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T09:11:11","slug":"a-new-era-for-girls-reporttaking-stock-of-25-years-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-era-for-girls-reporttaking-stock-of-25-years-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"A new era for girls report:Taking stock of 25 years of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently, UNICEF along with Plan International and United Nations Women has released a report titled \u201cA New era for girls: Taking stock on 25 years of progress\u201d.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The report is issued in the context of the Generation Equality campaign and to mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The number of out-of-school girls worldwide dropped by 79 million between 1998 and 2018.<\/li><li>The number of female youth aged 15-24 years who are illiterate declined from 100 million to 56 million between 1995 and 2018, but 1 in 10 female youth remain illiterate today.<\/li><li>Since 1995,the proportion of young women who were married as children has declined globally from 1 in 4 to approximately 1 in 5.<\/li><li>However,still one in every 20 girls aged 15-19 which is around 13 million has experienced rape in a lifetime.<\/li><li>Over the past 25 years, the adolescent birth rate has declined from 60 births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19 years to 44 births worldwide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UNICEF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UNICEF acronym of United Nations Children\u2019s Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946.It is headquartered in New York, USA.<\/li><li>It is a special program of the United Nations (UN) devoted to aiding national efforts to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children.<\/li><li>It publishes the State of the World\u2019s Children report every year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UN Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UN Women is the United Nations entity established in 2010.It is dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Generation Equality Forum:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Generation Equality Forum is a civil society\u2013centred, multi-stakeholder, global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France.<\/li><li>The Forum will kick off in Mexico City in May 2020 and culminate in France in July 2020.<\/li><li>It will celebrate the power of women\u2019s rights and take stock of progress and set an agenda of concrete action to realize gender equality before 2030.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently, UNICEF along with Plan International and United Nations Women has released a report titled \u201cA New era for girls: Taking stock on 25 years of progress\u201d. Facts: About the report: The report is issued in the context of the Generation Equality campaign and to mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-era-for-girls-reporttaking-stock-of-25-years-of-progress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new era for girls report:Taking stock of 25 years of progress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2074,1920],"class_list":["post-84959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-new-era-of-girls-report","tag-unicef","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704679986},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}