Although women have made great strides
throughout the past century, many difficult and critical issues still remain:
...... 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor are women
......
2/3rds of the more
than one billion illiterate adults in the world are women who have no access to
basic education; 2/3rds of the
children not in schools are girls
......
60 million women who would be alive today are “missingâ€