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JUST one in three countries has met the United Nations’s Education For All goals set in 2000, though there has been “tremendous progress,” UN cultural body Unesco announced yesterday.
Researchers found that 52 per cent of countries were providing universal primary schooling, but that 38 per cent were “far or very far” away from doing so.
Fifty million more children are enrolled in school than in 1999, but 100 million children do not complete their primary education.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE