I'm in his blind spot.

By sex and area oddly, the number of illiterates in the quot rest of country quot category is higher for men (53.4 ) than for women (46.6 ).

311. Particular concern is expressed that the rate of illiteracy is especially high among indigenous communities.

Literacy programmes for rural areas had specifically targeted women.

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

This is true of Kuna Yala, where there are almost two illiterate women for every illiterate man Darién, where 26.9 per cent of the male and 35 per cent of the female population are illiterate and Bocas del Toro, where the figures are 26 per cent and 34.7 per cent respectively (see table 8).

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

(a) Illiteracy rates Blacks, 43 per cent in rural areas and 23.2 per cent in urban areas Whites, 20 per cent in rural areas and 7.3 per cent in urban areas

(b) The low level of social awareness among rural women and their high illiteracy rate, which is 42 per cent, as compared with 17 per cent among men in rural areas

The Latvian Library for the Blind in Riga and 7 regional branches of the Library for the Blind have been established for servicing inhabitants who are blind or have impaired eyesight they provide publications in Braille and audio books on the whole territory of the country.

She'll be blind.

103. The Committee notes the persistence of a worrying rate of illiteracy, especially among women and in certain southern regions.

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

There are nevertheless marked differences among women depending on their place of residence while illiteracy affects 10 of every 100 women in urban areas, it occurs in 43 of every 100 women in rural zones.

It is noteworthy that the number of illiterate women in urban areas has increased by 86,000, or about 20 per cent in 1981, 429,000 illiterate women resided in urban areas, while in 1993 they numbered 515,000.

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.

The problem of illiteracy has been more pronounced with females than males and also in rural as opposed to urban areas.

At the same time, the number of illiterate women in rural areas diminished by 12 per cent, amounting to 103,000 in absolute terms.

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

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

5.2.1 Women and politics

Braille

Blind?

Blind?

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

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.

Finally, illiteracy has not been completely eradicated among young women in the rural Sierra region. School attendance

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.

Illiteracy

If the rates of illiteracy are analysed by sex and place of residence, we see that it is a problem that affects primarily women more than men, and women in rural areas compared with those in urban zones.