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13/10/2015

Gender Parity in Education Achieved in Less than Half World’s Countries – UNESCO

Human Wrongs Watch

12 October 2015 – A new gender report compiled by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), shows that fewer than half the countries have achieved the goal of ensuring gender parity in both primary and secondary education before 2005.

Schoolchildren in Chowrapara, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Photo: UNICEF/Tapash Paul

The new report Gender and Education for All (EFA) 2000-2015, compiled by UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report (GMR) and UN Girl’s Education Initiative also revealed that no country in sub-Saharan Africa has been able to meet the gender equality goal.

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13/10/2015

School Shootings in the USA: 10 Points

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung*

12 October 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – The Oregon community college was “the 45th school shooting this year in America; the 142nd school shooting since the Newton massacre in 2012”, Matthew Albracht–Peace Alliance–who adds: 25% of women experience domestic violence, 6 million children witness it every year, 28% of children are bullied during the year and they are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide.

**Photo: Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on Virginia Tech's campus in 2007 | Author: UserB | GNU Free Documentation License | Wikimedia Commons

**Photo: Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on Virginia Tech’s campus in 2007 | Author: UserB | GNU Free Documentation License | Wikimedia Commons

What can be done? 10 points:

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