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"Women account for 64% of the adults worldwide who cannot read or write with understanding."

 

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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http://www.un.org:80/depts/dhl/literacy/

 

International Literacy Day

8 September


 

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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GIRLS - LITERACY - EDUCATION

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30870&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

In a majority of developing countries girls continue to face discrimination with regards to access to school. As a result, they comprise about 57% of all out-of-school children.

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Over 70 countries are at risk of not achieving the Education for All goal of gender parity by 2005, and some will not even meet this goal by 2015.

UNESCO supports girls’ education by promoting their access to, and retention in, primary education and by supporting education policies that are equitable. UNESCO’s strategy is based on three main objectives: consolidation of knowledge, building partnerships, advocacy, and policy development. At present, UNESCO is carrying out activities in the areas of advocacy, networking, information campaigns, seminars, training, capacity building and community-based projects.

This section of the portal on “Gender Equality and Girls’ Education” will focus in particular on primary education, with plans to extend this focus to basic education.

 





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