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DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
Following is the textual content of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message on the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report on studying loss:
Ladies and gents, schooling is prime to the dignity, progress and improvement of each human being. It is central to progress throughout all 17 Sustainable Development Goals; to securing peace and human rights; decreasing gender inequality; and narrowing divides between wealthy and poor.
Even earlier than the pandemic, schooling methods had been struggling to provide learners the information, expertise and values wanted to thrive in our quickly altering world. The most weak kids had been impacted most of all — falling additional behind their friends and in danger of being trapped in a life of poverty.
Yet after two years of disrupted schooling as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the world is going through a generational disaster. The report launched right this moment by UNICEF, the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is an pressing wakeup name.
It exhibits that just one in three international locations elevated public sources for schooling in the present college 12 months. And one in 4 international locations that skilled in depth college closures during the last two years even decreased their schooling budgets.
Meanwhile, the share of schooling funding in each official improvement help and humanitarian assist fell throughout the pandemic. Without decided and fast motion, many college students could by no means return to the classroom.
Some 10 million extra women are in danger of little one marriage, and a long time of arduous-earned progress on entry to high quality schooling can be erased. The Secretary-General’s Transforming Education Summit this September is our alternative to reply decisively — collectively.
Over the subsequent six months, we’re calling on all Governments, companions and younger folks the world over to affix forces for schooling. We should increase funding in schooling as a pre-eminent public good and step up our efforts to realize Sustainable Development Goal 4 for all between now and 2030.
Together, we should — and we are able to — remodel schooling methods in all places and make sure that learners of all ages attain their full potential for the profit of all folks and our planet.
Thank you.
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