Over the past decade, there has been only slight progress in sending more children to classrooms worldwide. One-sixth of school-age kids lack an education.
WASHINGTON (AN) — Over the past decade, there has been only slight progress in sending more children to classrooms worldwide and around one-sixth of school-age kids are not getting an education, UNESCO reported on Friday.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said its latest data on the world’s out-of-school children reveals about 258.4 million children, adolescents and youth were out of school last year, representing one-sixth of the global population of this age group.
By far the largest share of the US$236 billion a year in illegal profits comes from forced commercial sexual exploitation.
Football's governing body will mark the 100th anniversary of the World Cup in Uruguay, where the first was held in 1930.
The U.N. agency's first global guidance urges governments to quickly regulate generative AI in education and research.
It suggests most jobs are only partly exposed to automation, and are more likely to be complemented than substituted.
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The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
The U.N. body also demands Israel be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
At least 200 humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza — more than 95% Palestinians – since the outbreak of war.
