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Children's right to education is a human right. Swedish UN veteran Yasmine Sherif is sure of her cause. The most effective way to enslave people is to prevent them from going to school, which is happening with the girls in Afghanistan, she says.

Canada will be represented at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York on July 19, 2023, by a broad cross-section of Canadian society. 

Hon har arbetat i hela världen, men det är i Stockholm hennes rötter finns. När FN-veteranen Yasmine Sherif under några sommardagar besöker den svenska huvudstaden är det med en uppmaning att relationen mellan hemlandet och världssamfundet ska utvecklas.

Une importante délégation canadienne représentera le Canada au Forum politique de haut niveau pour le développement durable des Nations Unies, qui se tiendra à New York le 19 juillet 2023.

As the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) looms, Education Cannot Wait’s director Yasmine Sherif warned, “We are failing the promises we made on everything in the sustainable development goals, but especially on education because, without education, we cannot achieve any of the other sustainable development goals.”

We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.In the face of a child’s suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait: “We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.

We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.In the face of a child's suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait:“We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.

As of 2023, approximately one-third of the Libyan population is living below the poverty line, indicating a significant issue of child poverty within the country. Consequently, Libya has an assigned score of 6.97/10 on the Realization of Children’s Rights Index (RCRI). This rating categorizes the situation of children’s rights in Libya as “difficult.”

As the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) looms, Education Cannot Wait's director Yasmine Sherif warned, "We are failing the promises we made on everything in the sustainable development goals, but especially on education because, without education, we cannot achieve any of the other sustainable development goals."

Sherif was speaking at the "Ensuring Education Continuity: The Roles of Education in Emergencies, Protracted Crises and Building Peace" conference at the United Nations headquarters - where speaker after speaker called for an immediate increase in funding for education in crisis zones.

We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.In the face of a child’s suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait: “We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s Global Citizen Festival as the anti-poverty nonprofit looks to focus attention on increasing inequality for girls and young women around the world.

Las tablets fueron donadas por Education Cannot Wait (ECW) que es un fondo global para respuestas a emergencias en educación. Se brindaron 165 tablets con diversas aplicaciones educativas como Aprendo en Casa. Este dispositivo servirá de apoyo digital para el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de diferentes niveles.