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"Women
account for 64% of the adults worldwide who cannot read or write with
understanding."
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
International Literacy Day
8 September
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Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now
close to four billion literate people in the world. However, literacy for all
– children, youth and adults - is still an unaccomplished goal and an ever
moving target. A combination of ambitious goals, insufficient and parallel
efforts, inadequate resources and strategies, and continued underestimation
of the magnitude and complexity of the task accounts for this unmet goal.
Lessons learnt over recent decades show that meeting the goal of universal
literacy calls not only for more effective efforts but also for renewed
political will and for doing things differently at all levels - locally,
nationally and internationally. In its resolution A/RES/56/116, the General Assembly proclaimed the ten year period beginning 1 January 2003 the United Nations Literacy Decade. In resolution A/RES/57/166, the Assembly welcomed the International Plan of Action for the Decade and decided that Unesco should take a coordinating role in activities undertaken at the international level within the framework of the Decade. |
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Unesco
United Nations
UNICEF
United Nations Development Programme
World Bank Group
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