Right to education

One of the biggest contributors to global poverty is lack of access to education. Today, education remains an inaccessible right for millions of children around the world. More than 72 million children of primary education age are not in school and 759 million adults are illiterate and do not have the awareness necessary to improve both their living conditions and those of their children.

Millions of children and adults around the world lack the access to education for various reasons

Marginalization and poverty (around the world 59 million children of primary school age are being denied an education, and almost 65 million adolescents are without access to a secondary school).

Conflict and natural disasters (disruption of education for 75 million children).

Financial deficit of developing countries (in one of three countries, less than three quarters of teachers are trained to national standards, resulting in 130 million children enrolled in school who are not even learning the basics).

Child exploitation (today, close to 250 million children in the world work, of which more than 150 million work in dangerous conditions. Furthermore, each year more than one million of these children fall victim to trafficking. In 2012, there were 168 million child labor workers aged 5 to 17. This is one reason many children cannot attend school).

Inequality between girls and boys (nearly 15 million girls of primary school age will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school, compared to about 10 million boys).