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Message du Secrétaire général de l'ONU |
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SG/SM/8849 - OBV/368
LITERACY PREREQUISITE FOR REACHING GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS
SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LITERACY DAY MESSAGE
Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of Literacy Day, observed 8 September:
Today, we celebrate the first Literacy Day of the United Nations Literacy Decade -- the international framework for action launched last February to galvanize the work for improved literacy rates around the world, focused on the international goal of raising literacy levels by 50 per cent by 2015.
There are more than 860 million illiterate adults in the world today, two-thirds of whom are women. Helping them achieve literacy is not only vital in its own right; it is a prerequisite for reaching the other objectives the world has set itself in the Millennium Declaration. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
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