Being born a girl makes life harder, and it is worse if she is African
More children die in Chad every day than in Finland every year, and while Finland's average education is up to university level, in Chad, the average child does not finish primary school
17 September 2019 - 14:18
London — Despite steady development gains, a child's birthplace is still the biggest predictor of its future health, and no matter which country you are born in, life is harder if you are a girl, a major report said on Tuesday.
The analysis by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a leading philanthropic funder of health and development, found that about 500-million people worldwide still do not get basic health and education, and girls everywhere suffer disadvantage...
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