UN calls for more than 400 million children unable to go to school
January 24 was International Education Day. At UN Headquarters, an international conference on education was held, and the UN called on governments to increase their education budgets, saying that 420 million children, mainly in developing countries, would not be able to attend school.
The United Nations has set forth the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030, including the "spread of education."
At an international conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York on International Education Day 24, UN Secretary-General Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed said, 420 million people will not be able to attend school ", he said, stating that achieving the SDGs would be extremely difficult.
He stressed the need for governments to increase their budgets, stating that education budgets are $ 39 billion annually worldwide and ¥ 4.2 trillion in Japanese yen each year to achieve this.
Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed then raised three specific educational topics that should be focused on: preventing hate speech, raising awareness of global warming, and introducing digital technology.
Regarding global warming, which is positioned as the most important issue of the United Nations, he said, "We would like to call on all countries to systematically incorporate education on global warming countermeasures in the policy making process." Advocated the spread of education to raise children's awareness of problems.