Education Today newsletter, July - September, 2003- 3. Education for All

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3. Education for All

Girls’ education: Getting the balance right
Some fifty countries are unlikely to meet the target of gender parity in education by 2005.
In isolated hamlets of Upper Egypt, 12-year-old girls are convincing their parents to postpone marriage until they graduate from school. >> More

Education-for-All Week
Global EFA Week is the major annual advocacy event of the Education-for-All drive. It serves to recall the EFA goals set at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. >> More

Questions to Carlos Zarco Mera
Carlos Zarco Mera participated in the 3rd World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in January 2003 in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Council of Adult Education in Latin America and the Latin American focal point for UNESCO’s Collective Consultation of NGOs on EFA. A critical voice from the civil society movement. >> More

Davos Tackles UN Goals
To most, the annual World Economic Forum in Davos rhymes with mighty corporate interests and untrammelled globalization, yet a closer look tells a different story. >> More

World tour
• Some 200 policy-makers, representatives of regional, sub-regional and non-governmental organizations, donors, members of parliament and experts met in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in March to examine crucial issues including education within the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Today, three-quarters of the population of sub-Saharan Africa survive on less than two dollars a day. Of the 49 least developed countries in the world, 34 are African. >> More

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