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.
But the International Labor Organization notes the post-pandemic job recovery for 15- to 24-year-olds is not universal.
Worker protections against effects of climate change and biological hazards are on the labor conference's agenda.
But unequal access to job opportunities, particularly for women in low-income countries, remains a problem.
By far the largest share of the US$236 billion a year in illegal profits comes from forced commercial sexual exploitation.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
