[05.08.23] DFCはこのたびDEFC(De-mining and Education for the Children)と名称変更し新たなスタートを切りました。サイトもDEFCへと引っ越し、充実させてゆく予定です。今後とも宜しくお願い致します。なお、お手数ですがリンクの変更等もお願い致します。
[05.03.09] A report issued by SAVE THE CHILDREN says that 60 million girls were not going to school - a higher proportion than boys, BBC NEWS reported.
School fees, even when very low, could deter families from giving girls a basic education, which could consign them to a low-income, low-status life.
"The burden of poverty falls particularly heavily on girls. If parents can't afford to send all their children to school, it's the girls who usually lose out," said the report.
The gender gap in education was at its biggest in sub-Saharan Africa, said the report, with 23 million girls completely missing out on school. Only 5% of girls in some countries in this region went to secondary school.
In India and Pakistan, 22 million girls missed out on school. And 40% of girls from poor households in the region did not reach the end of their first year in primary school.
[05.01.18] More than 500 million people can escape abject poverty if rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, according to a new UN-sponsored report. Some 265 experts who contributed to the plan said 250 million people would no longer suffer hunger and 30 million children could be saved if $195 billion was invested over the next decade.
[05.01.16] A still older stuff: UNICEF CALLS ON CHINA, INDIA, RUSSIA AND US TO JOIN MINE BAN TREATY.
[05.01.09] A little bit old news: On 16 December 2004, UNESCO welcomed the release of two long-time Laotian political prisoners whose freedom the agency has sought for many years.
Latsami Khamphoui, a former Deputy Minister for the Economy and Planning and Feng Sakchittaphong, a former senior officer of the Justice Ministry, both behind bars since 1990, arrived with their families in France today and will be given medical care.
[05.01.06] 昨日the United Nations Mine Action Serviceが発表した“Portfolio of Mine Action Projects”によると、は地雷除去と地雷被害者支援プログラムに今年必要な3億7千100万㌦の内まだ7千700万㌦しか納入されていないそうです。このプロジェクトは33国・地域で地雷の調査・除去、対地雷教育、被害者支援、地雷禁止条約推進などの303のプログラムを実施するというものです。