24 January, International Day of Education
- Korca Boom
- Jan 24
- 1 min read
In the United Nations calendar, January 24 is the International Day of Education.
The United Nations General Assembly declared January 24 as the International Day of Education, recognizing its merits in achieving peace and development, and acknowledging it as a human right, a public good, and a public responsibility.
The right to education is enshrined in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration calls for free and compulsory primary education. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) goes further, specifying that countries must make higher education accessible to all.
According to the UN, education is the key to sustainable development.
Education offers children a ladder out of poverty and a path toward a promising future. However, around 244 million children and adolescents worldwide are out of school; 617 million children and adolescents cannot read or perform basic math; less than 40% of girls in Sub-Saharan Africa complete lower secondary school, and approximately four million refugee children and youth are out of school.
The UN states that quality education is the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is leaving millions of children, youth, and adults behind.
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