(VOVworld) - On International Literacy Day, September, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on governments and partners, including the private sector to join forces to reach the goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including promoting universal literacy and building peaceful, inclusive and sustainable societies.
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| This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s UNESCO designation September 8th as International Literacy Day in order to actively mobilize the international community (Source: AFP/TTXVN) |
The world is becoming increasingly digitized and information rich, thus new opportunities and challenges are emerging. More than 750 million adults are illiterate - two-thirds of them female and 115 million of them young. Some 250 million children of primary school age lack basic literacy skills and 124 million children and adolescents receive no schooling at all.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s UNESCO designation September 8th as International Literacy Day in order to actively mobilize the international community. According to UNESCO, this year's theme is “Reading the Past, Writing the Future,” which celebrates the past five decades of national and international engagement in non-stop efforts to increase literacy rates around the world.