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The Social Watch reports on the ten commitments of the World Summit for Social Development and the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action

  • To achieve completion of primary education of at least 80% of school age children by 2000
  • To provide universal access to basic education for all school age children by 2000
  • To achieve a life expectancy of over 60 years by 2000
  • To reduce infant mortality rates by a third of the 1990 rate or to 50 per 1,000 live births by 2000 if this figure is lower
  • To reduce under 5 mortality rates by a third of the 1990 rate or to 70 per 1,000 live births by 2000 if this figure is lower
  • To reduce maternal mortality to half the 1990 level by 2000
  • To achieve food security
  • To reduce severe and moderate malnutrition for children under 5 to half of the 1990 rate by 2000
  • To provide access to health care services for all by 2000
  • To provide access to reproductive health care services to all persons (pregnancies attended per every 1,000 live births)
  • To provide access to reproductive health care services to all persons (Percentages of births attended)
  • To reduce mortality and morbidity due to malaria by at least 20% of 1995 levels in 75% of countries affected
  • To eradicate, eliminate or control the main diseases constituting sanitary problems on a world level by 2000
  • To reduce the adult illiteracy to at least half the 1990 level
  • To provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for all (Percentage of population with access to sanitation)
  • To provide access to safe drinking water and aequatesanitation for all (Percentage of population with access to safe water)
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