Giving Youth a Voice to Build a Fair Post-Covid World
A joint UNESCO-UNODC partnership working to promote the rule of law through education is launching a series of virtual regional dialogues to bring young people together with policymakers to hear…
UNESCO Reports Global Surge in Attacks Against Journalists
OPENING STATEMENT Today, there is no organization in the world that is working effectively to protect journalists from state excesses and police brutality. Although UNESCO and other UN agencies keep…
Covid Pandemic Increasing Educational Crisis: UNESCO Chief
This year, 900 million (of the world’s 1.5 billion) pre-primary to secondary students were set to return to school between August and October. According to UNESCO figures, however, only half…
Covid-19 Affected the Education of 1 Billion Students: Report
An “education crisis” has plagued students the world over during the first half of 2020, and it continues in many parts of the world, according to the UN Special Rapporteur…
Virtual Launch of 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report
On 23 June the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) will host its first-ever virtual launch of the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education: All means all. The webinar will include…
UNESCO Reveals the Impact of Coronavirus on School Children
According to UNESCO, over 850 million children and youth – roughly half of the world’s student population – had to stay away from schools and universities due to coronavirus or…