Over 2.5 million girls and young women are denied secondary education, a number that will increase to 3 million in a few months. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the U.N.'s envoy for global ...

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), highlighted the essential role of education as the foundation ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says in a new report that access to education for refugees remains very limited compared to their counterparts in host countries. It calls for all ...

The impact of COVID-19 is causing unprecedented disruption to higher education everywhere. Within a matter of days or weeks, campuses around the world fell silent as countries went into lockdown in an ...

United Nations – After two years of attempted talks with the Taliban aimed at lifting its bans on secondary and university education and work for women in Afghanistan, the U.N. is proposing a plan to ...

The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) promotes global awareness and understanding of the work of the United Nations. “We need to come together and explore every avenue to keep ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Farida Shaheed said she does not know that antisemitism on campuses “is ...

SHEDDER REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, November 1 (UNHCR) - Seventeen-year-old Hodan's eyes sparkle with joy as she clutches her new English-Somali dictionary - a congratulatory gift from UNHCR on passing a ...