Education transformation needed for ‘inclusive, just and peaceful world’
Education has been Secretary-General António Guterres’ “guide and touchstone,” he said on Monday, the final day of the Transforming Education Summit, warning that it...
Financing education, imperative for ‘peaceful, prosperous, stable societies’
Education systems around the world need “more, not less money” the UN chief told journalists on Saturday during a joint press stakeout on the...
Transforming Education, Transforming The World
Statement by Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif for the Transforming Education Summit
Leaders from across the world are uniting at the UN Secretary-General’s Transforming...
Girls ‘failed by discrimination’ and stereotyping in maths class
Solving the equation: Helping girls and boys learn mathematics, a new report published on Wednesday by UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, has revealed a growing...
Transforming Education Summit: Halt the crisis, or risk failing an entire generation
Just a few hours before the start of the crucial Transforming Education Summit, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday, warned that globally, only a third of 10-year-olds...
Guterres raises alarm over ‘backsliding’ of democracy worldwide
On the 15th anniversary of the International Day of Democracy, commemorated on Thursday, the UN chief observed that “across the world, democracy is backsliding”.
“Civic space...
Xi calls ties with Iran strategic, backs Iran’s membership in BRICS
The Chinese president on Friday praised Iran’s independent position toward international developments and called the relations between Beijing and Tehran “strategic”.
“The relations of Iran...
World Economic Forum’s Sustainability Meetings Return to New York
In the new global context of socio-economic systemic shocks, recommitting to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has never been more crucial.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...
Iran takes official steps to join SCO
On Wednesday night, Iran signed a memorandum of commitments in the path to fully join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
They were signed between Iranian...
Iran-Armenia border must remain unchanged, Iran tells Azerbaijan
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov on Wednesday afternoon that the Islamic Republic will not accept a change...