Goal 3

But we can also have a bit of laughing...

The best way to make our best wishes to all women is by speaking of the third of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals (MDGs): promote gender equality and empower women, mainly by eliminating gender inequity in primary and secondary education throughout the world, preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015. (reference Millennium Devepolment Goals)

The gender inequities are unequivocal. The 60% of the 115 million children who do not attend school are girls. The illiteracy rate among adult women in poor countries is very high. Two-thirds of all illiterate in the world are women. Women perform two-thirds of working hours in the world but earn only 10% of global income. Women hold only 1% of the world agricultural land. In the world, women occupy only 14% of parliamentary seats and meet the 30% only in seven countries. One woman in three is the victim of physical or sexual abuse at some time in their life; about half of the victims of sexual violence in the world are younger than 16.

MDG are not empty words. Anyone who wants to get an idea of how to intervene practically on MDG 3 can read this article taken from the website of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in Italian or

http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/millennium_development_goals/