GLOBAL TOTAL OF 263 MILLION CHILDREN NOT IN SCHOOL MUST BE TACKLED, UN EXPERT SAYS
(WorldNews Switzerland)

23 October 2017 NEW YORK, 23 October 2017 (Issued as received) - More than a quarter of a billion children around the world are not being educated, leading to huge levels of illiteracy and discrimination and adding to tensions in society, a UN human rights expert has warned. It is imperative for States to reach all children and bring them into schools, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Koumbou Boly Barry, told the UN General Assembly in New York. `Discrimination and exclusion are keeping millions of children out of school, and almost 750 million adults and youth are illiterate,` said Ms. Boly Barry, presenting a report on the barriers to education for the estimated...