World Academy for the Future of Women

Building leadership for the future, focused on theUnited Nations Millennium Development Goals

• End Poverty and Hunger• Achieve Universal Primary Education

• Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women• Reduce Child Mortality• Improve Maternal Health

• Combat HIV/AIDS and Malaria• Ensure Environmental Sustainability

FACT: More than 1 billion people are living on less

than $1 a day.事实：全球十亿多人口每天人均生活费低于 1 美元

FACT: Undernourish

ment is responsible for

55% of the deaths of

children under the age of 5. 事实：由于营养不良导致 5 岁以下儿童死亡率高达

55%

FACT: Every 5 seconds, a child dies

from hunger.事实：每隔 5 秒钟，就有一个儿童死于饥饿

FACT: Every day, 50,000 people die as a result of

poverty. 事实：每天有 5 万人死于贫困

FACT: By the end of 2009, 100 million more people will suffer

from poverty. 事实：到 2009 年底将有 1 亿多人面临贫困危机

FACT: 500 million people in the world are chronically malnourished. 事实：全球有 5 亿 人处于长期营养不 良状态

FACT: 115 million children around the world do not attend primary

school. 事实：全球有 1 亿 1 千 5 百万儿童不能上小学

FACT: Over 100 million children around the world have never

been in a classroom.事实：全球有超过 1 亿儿童从未进过教室

FACT: 1 billion people entered the 21st

century unable to read a newspaper or sign

their name. 事实： 21 世纪全球有 10 亿人不能读报纸或写自己的名字

FACT: Educated women are three times more likely to take part in

political meetings. 事实：受过教育的女性参与政治会议的欲望比没受过教育的高出 3 倍

FACT: Young people who have completed

primary education are less than half as likely

to contract HIV as those missing an

education.

事实：完成初等教育的年轻人感染艾滋病毒的几率比没有受教育的人要少一半

FACT: A single year of primary education correlates to a 10-20%

increase in women’swages later in life.事实：每完成一年初等教育，女性今后的工资就可能上涨 10-20%

FACT: In 2003, women held only 15% of the seats in national

parliaments.事实： 2003 年，女性在国家议会只占15% 的席位

FACT: The employment rate for women is 2/3 that of men.事实：全世界女性就业率仅是男性的三分之二

FACT: 2/3 of the illiterate adults in the world are

women事实：全球三分之二的成年文盲是女性

FACT: On average, a

woman’s salary is 1/3 of that of

her male counterpart事实：一个女性的工资一般只有她男性同事工 资的三分之一

FACT: More than 80% of the world’s refugees are

women事实：全球有超过 80% 的难民是女性

FACT: At least 1 in 3 women are the victim of some type

of gender-based

violence事实 : 三个女性里至少有一个是性暴力的受害者