Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova launched the 50th International Literacy Day at the Organization’s Paris Headquarters on September 8, 2016 with a reminder of literacy’s power to realise the goals of the new global agenda. Worldwide there are 758 million adults who cannot read or write a simple sentence, two thirds of them women and with the greatest bottlenecks to progress in Africa (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).
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