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Cambodia prepares for new round of UN development goals
Cambodia has failed to meet a number of UN Millennium Development Goals, which were set out years ago and aimed at halving global poverty. Ros Sopheap, executive director for Gender and Development for Cambodia, said gender equality and the empowerment of women have not been ...
Oum Sonita
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-prepares-for-new-round-of-un-development-goals/2913609.html
Too many Cambodian women dying during childbirth
Cambodia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Southeast Asia. The number of women dying during pregnancy or childbirth has dropped in recent years. But it is still far short of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The Cambodian government accepted those goals ...
Men Kimseng
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-maternal-mortality-rates/2712966.html
Maternal mortality rates remain high, despite UN goals
Cambodia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the region, and despite UN goals set up for the end of 2015, that number has remained high. There, only 75 percent of women giving birth were attended by trained health workers in 2012, according ...
Men Kimseng
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UN Millennium Goal for education remains elusive
Cambodia has made some progress in improving its education system in line with its 2015 UN Millennium Goals, but dropout rates remain high, due to endemic poverty and corruption. Universal literacy and 9th-grade education were the second-highest goal in the development plan, whose progress Cambodia will ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1EHV8Go
Cambodia reduces infant mortality
Cambodia is not meeting many of its UN Millennium Development Goals, which are coming due this year, but it has made progress in the reduction of infant mortality. Currently, 28 of 1,000 children born in Cambodia die before reaching the age of one. That number is ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1IOq4mN