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Unesco: 244 million children around the world do not go to school

The data released by the are shocking Unesco, regarding children who are unable to go to school and as the Organization points out, while the number has been continuously decreasing for more than 20 years, it remains worrying. In total, 244 million children around the world are out of school, according to the latest figures.

“No one can accept this situation. Education is one right and we must do everything to ensure that this right is respected for every child,” Unesco director-general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement.

Of the 244 million children age6 to 18-year-olds who do not go to school more than 40%, or 98 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa Africamainly in Niger (20.2 million), Ethiopia (10.5 million), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5.9 million) and Kenya (1.8 million), according to Unesco.

Although more girls relative to boys not attending school in 2000 (+2.5% in primary education and +3.9% in secondary education), the gender gap “annihilated”, the UN agency noted, though “regional differences remain,” reports the Athens News Agency.

More than 400 million children were out of school in 2000, according to Unesco, which welcomed “progress” on the issue in last two decades, although their pace “has slowed significantly in recent years”.

Source: News Beast

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