Some experts, however, dismiss these views as mental health illiteracy.

For her, illiteracy is what keeps people from being people .

Amidst this undeniable progress, however, remain widespread poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Extreme poverty bred illiteracy and miserable governance, which in turn intensified hunger, disease, and instability.

The illiteracy rate is 68 in Central African Republic, 57 in India, 16 in South Africa.

Illiteracy, child marriage, teen pregnancy are part of a vicious cycle that especially affects our girls.

As India s educated revolt against preferences, they should not do so in a way that reinforces illiteracy.

Our indigenous communities continue to lose their land to foreign corporations. Endemic diseases and illiteracy are increasing.

And illiteracy has gone down, from a half to about a quarter of the people on Earth.

As India s educated revolt against preferences, they should not do so in a way that reinforces illiteracy.

Within the broad Millennium Declaration is a set of specific targets for reducing poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy, and environmental degradation.

While crusading against illiteracy in a war weary hinterland, Soriano is keen to expand his meager English language book collection.

The international community has agreed on a set of modest goals for global development reducing poverty and illiteracy and improving health.

For every major problem hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.

There are few developing countries in the world where this is true, and fewer still where poverty and illiteracy are both rife.

For every major problem hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.

Not surprisingly, despite progress in recent decades, illiteracy remains at around 30 on average, and in some Arab countries reaches 50 and 60 .

Health conditions are reasonably good, and all Latin American countries have made headway against illiteracy, with most reaching 90 adult literacy or higher.

The fight to eradicate misery, illiteracy, and corruption, and Islam s embrace of science, do not depend on the results of the Middle East peace process.

Indeed, the adult illiteracy rate in Somalia is 63 , and 39 in Nigeria in South Sudan, more girls die during childbirth than complete primary school.

This fight requires large investments to create jobs and well as financial aid from America and the UN to fight disease, illiteracy, and environmental ills.

Good governments must emphasise real development, which means removing what the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen calls the unfreedoms of illiteracy, ill health and social deprivation.

This fight requires large investments to create jobs and well as financial aid from America and the UN to fight disease, illiteracy, and environmental ills.

Massive investments are also needed in education to eradicate deep pockets of illiteracy, raise overall skill levels, and better match skills to the demands of the market.

Obviously, the legacy of colonialism widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence is a major factor in their current poverty.

Obviously, the legacy of colonialism widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence is a major factor in their current poverty.

Without dramatic improvement at all educational levels, unemployment, illiteracy, and income inequality will continue to worsen, and the region will remain a danger to itself and its neighbors.

It can also bring about crucial changes on a larger scale helping to reduce illiteracy and crime, for example, as well as other social pathologies that impede prosperity and stability.

No clear programs are put in place to rescue the enslaved from their misery, nor to better the conditions of the previously enslaved who suffer under the heavy foot of poverty, illiteracy, and deprivation.

As an adult, Zainab joined literacy courses that enabled her to pursue her education until 12th grade. She then turned teacher, determined to teach in the villages of her region until illiteracy was eradicated.

Parents themselves may lack adequate education, leaving them unable to help their own children beyond the first year or two of school, so that illiteracy and innumeracy are transmitted from one generation to the next.

Illiteracy, which stands at 35.1 in Sierra Leone, and certain cultural norms common in West Africa, such as washing, touching, and kissing the remains of the deceased, have exacerbated the Ebola problem in the region.

Amidst this undeniable progress, however, remain widespread poverty, disease, and illiteracy. In a world made smaller by modern telecommunications, satellite TV, and the Internet, the vast challenges of development that we continue to face confront us everyday.

In a country where the illiteracy rate of both sexes (15 years and above) is almost 40 per cent, education and the empowerment of the women and youth is an imperative necessity for any concrete development in Yemen.

Eleven years later, it's one of the biggest charity organizations in Egypt, with more than 50 branches all over the country, tens of thousands of volunteers, and different activities that vary from blood donation and orphanages, to fighting illiteracy.

By depriving Bidoon children of the right to attend school, Kuwait is perpetuating a damaging stereotype and intentionally sentencing an entire generation of innocent children to a lifetime of illiteracy, paving the way to unemployment, drug dealing, crime, and resentment.

So, we gave it all back, and then we set up three foundations, working on some of the major problems of the world illiteracy, poverty, pandemic diseases particularly HIV AIDS and set up these three foundations, and put the money into that.

For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in two years, have provided the framework for international development cooperation, with a focus on combating poverty worldwide. In developing a new, comprehensive follow up agenda, global leaders should recognize that, although the MDGs have enabled millions of people worldwide to escape illiteracy, disease, and hunger, their overall impact has been inadequate, particularly in fragile, conflict ridden countries.