Literacy programmes for rural areas had specifically targeted women.

In a few days, our country will be declared an illiteracy free zone.

Whereas in outlying rural areas the rate was still rather high, in Beirut, it was virtually zero.

Ms. Arocha Domínguez, noting that illiteracy was more prevalent among women than men, asked whether there were any disaggregated data that would allow a comparison of rates in rural and urban areas whether the Government was making any special efforts to reach illiterate women in rural areas and what strategies were in place to bring literacy teachers to those areas, since it had proved too expensive to transport the women to more centralized learning centres.

UNICEF will help the Government in developing literacy strategy for young people and support projects in five districts to pilot new functional literacy methods and materials.

Because of this, it is difficult for them to obtain better jobs.

Equal are not the blind and those who can see,

And the blind and the sighted are not equal!

Not equal are the blind and the seeing man,

Not alike are the blind and the seeing.

Not alike are the blind (disbelievers in Islamic Monotheism) and the seeing (believers in Islamic Monotheism).

Not equal are the blind and the seeing.

The blind and the seeing are not alike,

The blind man is not equal with the seer

The blind one and the seer are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not equal,

Not equal are the blind and the seeing,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

And the blind and the seeing are not alike

The blind and the sighted are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

Furthermore, the region is home to 70 per cent of the illiterate population of the world (600 million persons), 65 per cent of whom are women.

For example, it was reported that there is a 98 per cent illiteracy rate within indigenous communities in Central Africa in respect of the dominant languages of the countries concerned.

In addition, information is developed in non written formats, to accommodate the needs of communities with high levels of illiteracy.

There are differences between agricultural and urban zones in respect to the degree of educational achievement the ratio of the population without any level of education is lesser in the urban areas than in the agricultural ones.

5.2 Participation in and the formulation of Government policy and the implementation thereof

5.2.1 Women and politics

Actually, you cannot be tone deaf. Nobody is tone deaf.

The Three year Women's Literacy Programme, which seeks to teach 300,000 women to read and write by 2005, working through more than 1000 young literacy volunteers.

The rate of illiteracy was under 10 per cent for women, and about 5 per cent for men.

There had been a marked decrease in illiteracy, with very large numbers of students attending literacy courses, which were offered on a non discriminatory basis.

Development programmes sponsored by the Guinean government are aimed at eliminating female illiteracy, especially among poor women and those living in rural areas.

Illiteracy

Support of the activities of the National Committee of Blind Women of the ABPAM

8. Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to reinforce its lead role in coordinating and catalysing the activities of the Decade at the regional and international levels, prepare and conduct the mid Decade review in collaboration with all Decade partners during 2007 and 2008 and submit its results to the General Assembly

But whoso has been blind in this world shall be blind in the world to come, even farther astray from the path.

But whoso has been blind in this world shall be blind in the world to come, even farther astray from the path.

Whoever is blind in this life will be blind in the Hereafter, and even more astray. ( To the truth disbelieving.)

Whoever is blind in this life will be blind in the Hereafter, and even more astray. ( To the truth disbelieving.)

And whosoever is blind in this world shall be blind in the world to come, and he shall be even further astray from the way.

And whosoever is blind in this world shall be blind in the world to come, and he shall be even further astray from the way.

And whosoever hath been in this life blind will in the Hereafter be blind, and far astray from the way.

And whosoever hath been in this life blind will in the Hereafter be blind, and far astray from the way.

And whoever is blind in this world (i.e., does not see Allah's Signs and believes not in Him), will be blind in the Hereafter, and more astray from the Path.

And whoever is blind in this world (i.e., does not see Allah's Signs and believes not in Him), will be blind in the Hereafter, and more astray from the Path.