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World Leaders: Get Kids in School
World Leaders: Get Kids in School
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To World Leaders:

244 million children are out of school.

That’s more than the entire population of Brazil that is being denied the chance to learn. Children from families living in poverty are least likely to get an education, with many simply unable to afford school fees.

How can we build the world we want, beat the climate crisis, and achieve justice -- when 4 in 10 children don’t even finish secondary school?

We can’t.

Which is why we’re writing to you – as Nobel Peace Prize winners, former and current UN Special Rapporteurs, child rights experts, NGOs, education activists, and citizens from across the globe, with ONE BIG IDEA:

Let’s create a new global treaty that protects children and youth’s right to free education -- from pre-primary through secondary school.

We know this can work. After WWII governments were required to provide free primary education -- and now over 87% of children complete primary school. Today, we need to do something just as transformative and ensure we get ALL kids in school.

This isn’t just a lifeline for children. It’s a lifeline for us all. Educating girls is one of the most effective solutions we have to combating climate change.

So, let’s take it. Expand the right to free education now!

With hope and determination,
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, and human rights champions globally just called on leaders to expand the right to free education for all children.


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To World Leaders:
" 244 million children are out of school.

That’s more than the entire population of Brazil that is being denied the chance to learn. Children from families living in poverty are least likely to get an education, with many simply unable to afford school fees.

How can we build the world we want, beat the climate crisis, and achieve justice -- when 4 in 10 children don’t even finish secondary school?

We can’t.

Which is why we’re writing to you – as Nobel Peace Prize winners, former and current UN Special Rapporteurs, child rights experts, NGOs, education activists, and citizens from across the globe, with ONE BIG IDEA:

Let’s create a new global treaty that protects children and youth’s right to free education -- from pre-primary through secondary school.

We know this can work. After WWII governments were required to provide free primary education -- and now over 87% of children complete primary school. Today, we need to do something just as transformative and ensure we get ALL kids in school.

This isn’t just a lifeline for children. It’s a lifeline for us all. Educating girls is one of the most effective solutions we have to combating climate change.

So, let’s take it. Expand the right to free education now!

With hope and determination, "
Signatories:

Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate justice activist and founder of the Rise Up Climate Movement
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, Germany
Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director – Africa, CAMFED
Bert Wander, Acting CEO, Avaaz
Carol Bellamy, former Executive Director of UNICEF
Chernor Bah, Co-founder of A World At School and Purposeful; former youth advisory group chair, Global Education First Initiative
Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain
Elina Pekkarinen, Ombudsman for Children in Finland
Enayat Nasir, Managing Director of Aid Afghanistan for Education
Jaap Doek, former chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Janna Jihad, Palestinian youth activist
Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jonás Fernández Álvarez, Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain
Lothar Krappmann, former member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Malala Fund
Manal Moussane, United Nations Youth Representative on Human Rights and Security
Moushira Khattab, member of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; former member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Nujeen Mustafa, Syrian disability and refugee rights advocate; author
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Pashtana Durrani, Founder and Executive Director of LEARN Afghanistan
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, former Independent Expert of the UN Secretary-General for the World Report on Violence Against Children
Philip Alston, former Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Rahmatullah Alizai, Executive Director of Social Association for Development of Afghanistan (SADA)
Rahmatullah Arman, President and Founder of Teach for Afghanistan
Rosa María Ortiz, former Commissioner for Children's Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Stefania Giannini, UNESCO's Assistant Director General of Education
Victor Negrescu, Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Romania; Vice-Chair of the Culture, Education, Youth, Media and Sports Committee
Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait

*244 million children are out of school, according to a new UNESCO report published 1 September 2022. 

Avaaz is set to deliver this campaign at the Transforming Education Summit on 16 September 2022. This unprecedented UN summit seeks to mobilise political ambition, action, solutions and solidarity to transform education.
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