• Foreword by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General, United Nations

• Resources and results: Introduction by Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF

• Women
  A failure of imagination: Commentary by Peter Adamson
  League table of maternal death
  The impact on children
  Two million girls a year mutilated
  New estimates put toll at 585,000
  15 million women are victims

• Nutrition
  The Asian enigma: Commentary by Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Urban Jonsson and Jon Rohde
  League table of malnutrition
  How to ensure a child becomes malnourished
  A tale of two statistics
  Malnutrition up in 9 nations
  Kenya and Nigeria iodize most salt
  18 nations fortify foods
  Breastfeeding league

• Health
  Unfinished business: Commentary by Monica Sharma and James Tulloch
  What kills children
  Vaccines bring 7 diseases under control
  44 reach year 2000 target
  20 nations now pay own vaccine bills

• Education
  Keeping girls in school: Commentary by Patricia Lone
  League table of girls out of school
  Gender gap
  School standards

• The Convention on the Rights of the Child
  National Peformance Gap: Commentary by Partha Dasgupta
  Resources for rights: A UNICEF view
  League tables of National Performance Gaps
  The Convention: From acceptance to observance
  Translating principles into law
  Justice for juveniles
  A treaty goes to war ...and to school
  The right to a name and a nationality
  Convention watch begins
  The right to know about rights
  NGOs submit alternative reports

• The industrial world
  Beyond basics: Commentary by Peter Adamson
  Absent fathers linked to economic pressures
  Half of solo mothers in poverty in Australia, Canada and US
  Safety nets for children are weakest in US
  Only Ireland and Israel have poorer children than US
  Youth suicide league
  Finland's 15-year-olds smoke most
  Sweden heads new literary league
  Japan has lowest teen birth rate
  Aid now at lowest level for 20 years
  

• Statistical indicators
  Less populous countries
  The immunization record
  The 1995 goals: a scorecard
  Statistical profiles
  Target 2000
  Age of data

• Editorial note

• Abbreviations

• References

• Credits

• About the World Wide Web version

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