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Statistics and other information on issues we address:
Child Soldiers
An estimated 7,000 child soldiers remain in government forces and armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
Only about 15 percent of the total number of girls estimated to have been involved in the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo were officially demobilized by the end of 2006.Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
Only 12 percent of formally demobilized children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are girls, despite estimates that girls might have comprised up to 40 per cent of the total number of child soldiers during the armed conflict.
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
An estimated 300,000 child soldiers are currently fighting in conflicts around the world. UNICEF
When armed conflict breaks out, reignites or intensifies, children will almost inevitably become involved as soldiers.
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
The LRA [Lord’s Resistance Army, a sectarian guerrilla army in northern Uganda] has refused to release some 2,000 women and children on the grounds that they are wives and children of fighters.
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
The reintegration of child soldiers is a long-term process which aims to give returning child soldiers viable alternatives to involvement in armed conflict and to help them resume life in the community.
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
In the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo], the impact of delayed, unpredictable and short-term funding, combined with poor planning and management, resulted in some 14,000 former child soldiers being excluded from reintegration support. By the end of 2006, some four years after the start of the program, close to half of the total 30,000 children demobilized had not received reintegration assistance and international funding had virtually ceased. Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
Women/Girls
AIDS spreads twice a quickly among uneducated girls than among girls that have even some schooling.
UN Millennium Project
Above 80 percent of farmers in Africa are women.
UN Millennium Project
More than 40% of women in Africa do not have access to basic education.
UN Millennium Project
Women earn only 10% of the world’s income, yet they work two out of every three of the world’s labor hours.
UN Millennium Project
The children of women with five years of primary school education have a survival rate 40% higher than children of women with no education.
UN Millennium Project
A woman living in sub-Saharan Africa has a 1 in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth. Compare this with a 1 in 3,700 risk for a woman living in North America.
UN Millennium Project
More than 80 percent of all women’s work in sub-Saharan Africa is in vulnerable jobs as own-account or unpaid family workers.
UN MDG Report 2008
Education
About 38 million children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa are not in school.
UN MDG Report 2008
According to the UN, children affected by conflict or political unrest are more likely to be deprived on an adequate education, and girls are particularly unlikely to complete primary education due to the lack of a safe, quality learning environment, poverty or early marriage. It reports that at least 1 in 5 refugee children is not part of the formal education system.
UN MDG Report 2008
In sub-Saharan Africa, only a quarter of children of secondary school age are in secondary school.
UN MDG Report 2008
Disease
Every day, nearly 7,500 people become infected with HIV and 5,500 die from AIDS, mostly due to a lack of HIV prevention and treatment services. The vast majority of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
UN MDG Report 2008
By 2006, only 10% of children in Uganda were sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets (to prevent contracting malaria).
UN MDG Report 2008
