The problem of illiteracy of women is particularly stressed.

b) however, in 1991, the degree of illiteracy of women in BiH (16.4 ) had still been higher than the degree of illiteracy of men (3.4 ).

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.

At present there are nearly 10,000 adult literacy centers almost 90 of which cater to women.

Adult Literacy Schools exist in rural and urban areas for women as well as men to promote functional literacy.

Such arrangements produced a male literacy rates of over 50 percent, and remarkable levels of textual Buddhist knowledge on the village level.

(a) Tajikistan had countrywide literacy by the early 1990s, but the process of getting an education began to slow after that. The main reasons for this are as follows

More than 30,000 people  two thirds of them women had become literate as a result of the programmes organized by the Ministry of Social Affairs in partnerships with NGOs.

The University has undertaken some innovative projects aimed at developing study materials for adults in local languages under the department of Adult Literacy and Continuing Education.

This program and practice will foster dignity within communities often viewed as powerless, illiterate, and culturally impoverished.

The degree of illiteracy, poor academic achievement and poor school attendance, especially at the middle school and higher levels, tends to be higher among indigenous peoples than in the rest of the population.

The adult literacy classes, as a direct and indirect way of promoting education in the family, which consequently benefits the infantile education.

(c) To address female literacy, some 746 women's centres were set up in 1999 to promote traditional and functional literacy.

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The activity on going is starting with development of strategy which basic aim is the establishing and strengthening municipal services for free legal assistance to women, a swell as literate of women through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

For 2001 the United Nations Development Programme s Human Development Report estimates that the adult literacy rate climbed to about 80.8 percent, or 91.3 percent for males and 69.3 percent for females.

UNESCO coordinates a project on strengthening the economic capacity of women for primary education in rural areas in Burkina Faso, covering preschool activities, literacy courses for women and income generating activities.

The Committee recommends that the State party make every effort to improve the literacy level of girls and women through the adoption of comprehensive programmes, in collaboration with civil society, at the formal and non formal levels and through adult education and training.

UNESCO and UNICEF should continue to promote bilingual and cross cultural education programmes for indigenous peoples and schools for girls and women's literacy programmes in Latin America, and should encourage and expand these experiences in other regions.

Parents themselves may lack adequate education, leaving them unable to help their own children beyond the first year or two of school, so that illiteracy and innumeracy are transmitted from one generation to the next.

Indeed, any Indian able to read this article should consider himself lucky, because India s politicians have succeeded in keeping a majority of the country s population thoroughly illiterate (as well as poor and unhealthy).

In 2011, she published an award winning children's book, Dream Big, Little Pig , which was 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and received the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award a portion of the proceeds went to the Always Dream Foundation to support early childhood literacy programs.

Also, data show that the education structure of women over 15 in Republika Srpska is appalling every fourth woman is illiterate (23.1 per cent) and 23.5 per cent have not completed elementary school.