More than 130 ministers, along with senior government officials, Nobel Prize winners, leaders of international organizations and non governmental organizations, intellectuals, private sector representatives, researchers, have initiated in the World Formun on Education in Incheon (South Korea) this Tuesday, the creation of a road map on global education for the next 15 years, as it was announced by the Unesco.
The 2030 Declaration on Education will be agreed at the end of the meeting, and will mobilize all countries and their allies to implement the new agenda, as well as encouraging to propose ways to coordinate it, financing it and following it up in the national and regional level to guarantee equal opportunities for all.
“We know the power of education to eradicate poverty, to transform lives and make progress in the Millennium Development Goals. We have the collective duty to build the capabilities of each children and young person on the needed foundations for them to encourage the future as global citizens that build on the successes of the last 15 years”, said Irina Bokova, General Director of UNESCO.
According to the Statistical Institute of the UNESCO, in 2012 there were 76 million of kids and teenagers out of school less than 2000. In the same period, about 67 million of more children received preschool education and around 50 million more enrolled the primary school. On the other hand, the Education for All Report shows that 57 million of primary education children and 63 million of teenagers are still out of school, and 781 millions of adults are illiterate”.
“Education assures human rights, including health and work. And education is also essential to combat security threats, like violent extremism”, has assured the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon in the inauguration of the forum.
