"Education is a common good, a fundamental right and the foundation of a sustainable future."

 

On 24 January 2022, we celebrate the fourth International Day of Education under the theme “Changing Course, Transforming Education”.

Today, 258 million children and youth still do not attend school; 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math; less than 40% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa complete lower secondary school and some four million children and youth refugees are out of school. Their right to education is being violated and it is unacceptable.

 

Click here to read the message from Ms. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the International Day of Education.