"EDUCATIONAL POLICY"

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated annually on 3 May, UNESCO’s Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, said, when freedom of the press regresses “it is all the rights that do regress with it,” and “when there's a regression, there's a regression of the debates within society and they are undermined.” UNIFEED

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

With COVID-19 exposing the fault-lines of education systems globally, more than 130 countries committed to rebooting their education systems and accelerating action to end the learning crisis, at the UN Transforming Education Summit. UNIFEED

Addressing Leaders Day at the Transforming Education Summit taking place at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “instead of being the great enabler, education is fast becoming a great divider,” and called for a “new vision for education in the 21st century.” UNIFEED

UN chief says education transformation needed for ‘inclusive, just and peaceful world’.

The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is having a severe negative impact on the economic prospects for Europe, the IMF said Friday in Washington, DC. IMF

Somalia and the United Nations culture and education agency (UNESCO) today signed an agreement aimed at strengthening efforts to preserve the country’s cultural heritage and improve its educational sector. UNSOM

Briefing by Monica Grayley, Spokesperson for the President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly.

Event entitled “Maiden Celebration of International Day of Education”