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Mar 29, 2021 | Press Releases, Updates

Broadband Commission deliberates building an inclusive post-COVID digital future

A year into the crucial Decade of Action intended to achieve 17 key Sustainable Development Goals, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in setbacks. In response, the commissioners of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development…

May 11, 2018 | Updates

Statement from Gordon Brown on the International Finance Facility for Education

PRESS STATEMENT Over 1.5 million youth deliver a petition to United Nations backing $10 billion plan to create an International Finance Facility for Education “Value for money” innovative facility makes aid money go four times further and addresses child labour,...

Dec 26, 2017 | In the Media

Universal Education’s Moment of Truth (Project Syndicate)

From the article: LONDON – For nearly seven decades of a tumultuous century, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has served as a beacon of hope worldwide. But some of its finely crafted provisions have come back to haunt us in the form of some shocking new...

Nov 29, 2017 | In the Media

The Moral Imperative of Quality Education (Project Syndicate)

From the article: Poor countries like Malawi are doing what they can to improve educational quality and access. But there is only so much that a country with modest means can achieve, which is why global leaders, when they meet in Senegal early next year, must...

Nov 22, 2017 | Updates

New UK report calls for increase in global education financing

The UK House of Commons’ International Development Committee has just published its report ‘DFID’s work on education: Leaving no one behind?’ The report assesses the Department for International Development’s (DFID) work in global education and its...

Nov 15, 2017 | Updates

Commissioner Baela Raza Jamil: “A call to action I cannot refuse”

Serving as a Commissioner on the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity is a privilege. In the short time since the Commission launched in 2015, we have created the Learning Generation vision – an achievable plan to ensure that all children...

Nov 3, 2017 | Updates

Ideas Worth Sharing: Commissioner Amel Karboul at TED

In September 2017, Commissioner Amel Karboul presented at the TED@BCG event in Milan, and we’re thrilled that her talk is now featured on TED.com. In her talk, Dr. Karboul describes a dire education crisis: Today, more than a quarter of a billion children are out of...

Oct 13, 2017 | In the Media

Closing the Education Gender Gap (Project Syndicate)

From the article: On this International Day of the Girl, the number of girls not attending school, despite having fallen by 40% since 2000, still stands at 130 million. This represents both a moral and a practical failing, because girls are not receiving the education...

Oct 5, 2017 | In the Media

The Rohingya Children of Karachi

From the article: Areeba is a Rohingya belonging to a migrant family from Myanmar. Her ancestors escaped from their land when it was Burma. They ran for their lives during the vicious recurrent cycles of purges against them as a minority group. Areeba was born in...

Sep 18, 2017 | In the Media

A Double Betrayal for Refugee Children (Project Syndicate)

From the article: Last year, the Education Cannot Wait fund was created to close the education-financing gap for refugee children and ensure that the necessary resources are available when disaster strikes. It was a heartening development, but the harsh reality is...

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