Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Nepal

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Poverty - Target likely to be achieved Hunger - Target unlikely to be achieved Achieve Universal Primary Education Possible to achieve if changes are made
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Targets possible to achieve if changes are made Reduce Child Mortality Targets likely to be achieved
Improve Maternal Health Improve Maternal Health Targets possible to achieve if changes are made Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases HIV and AIDS - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made Tuberculosis - Target likely to be achieved
Ensure Environmental Sustainability Environment - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made Water and Sanitation - Target Likely to be achieved Global Partnership for Development Poverty - Target likely to be achieved

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Goal 3 / Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Targets possible to achieve if changes are made

Girls' enrolment is approaching the same levels as the rates for boys - 95 girls for every 100 boys now enroll in primary school. This year an effective quota-system brought in over 33 percent of women in the Constituent Assembly. However, women's low status in the control of resources and political decision making remains, as does high incidence of violence against women (including early marriage and sex selective abortions). Serious measures should be taken to ensure the implementation of Nepal's international commitments for women's empowerment and gender equality. Key commitments include the CEDAW, and the UN Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

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[04-03-2010] - News

Target of reducing poverty likely to be met ��.

According to the draft report, Nepal is likely to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 of reducing poverty to 21 percent of the population by 2015 as it had already brought down the figure to 25 percent by 2008, with a decline rate of 1 percent annually. In 2005, the population below the poverty line was 31 percent.

[09-03-2010] - Press Clippings

Progress on Women front slow: Report

[09-03-2010] - Press Clippings

Nepal fails to implement laws

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