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Media Coverage in 2007

27th December - Business Day - South Africa
South Africa: Mbeki Scrapes Education 'Pass'
... has scraped a 52% pass rate for his government's efforts to school SA's children in an international survey by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). ...


18th December - Gulf Times - India
40% of adults illiterate
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should do more to ensure education for all in a country of over 1bn people, said the Global Campaign for Education ...


17th December - SPITS - the Netherlands
Met honderd in de klas


18th December - The New Nation - Bangladesh
Education Watch Report: Public funding in primary, secondary edn ...
... obligation of ensuring quality of opportunities for all citizens and because ensuring basic education for all is its primary responsibility. ...


18th December - Silobreaker - Global
Silobreaker: Global School Report looking at 178 countries - fr...
Global School Report looking at 178 countries - from Haiti to Norway World off track to meet education goals - 72 million still out of school ...


18th December - The Daily Star - Bangladesh 
Govt claim on free primary education not correct
"We are not at present on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for 2015 or to fulfill the constitutional pledge to 'extend free and ...


17th December - IRIN
Africa: Halfway to 2015 Education Goals, Progress Not Fast Enough
The World Bank's Fast Track Initiative has helped support developing countries who show a serious commitment to achieving universal primary education. ...


15th December - Women's eNews - USA
news to geer this week:
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3430/context/archive
A Dec.11 report issued by the Global Campaign for Education found that 1 in 4 women lack basic literacy. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, ...


14th December - Daily News & Analysis - India
PM scores only 50% on education
... in achieving the education goals as two out of five people in India are still illiterate, says the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) Report. ...


13th December - People's Daily Online - China
School for all children not a likely goal any time soon
Despite repeated promises, only one - the United Kingdom - is almost living up to its promises," Lucia Fry, GCE policy adviser, said on the sidelines of the ...13th December - Pretoria News - South Africa


13th December - Pretoria News - South Africa
No more free education
... to the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a grouping of thousands of teachers' unions and civil society groups, including Save the Children and Oxfam. ...


13th December - Reuters - Global
CORRECTED - World off track on goal of school for all children
It would cost the equivalent of just a few days of G8 military spending to give every child in Africa the chance to go to school, the report said. ...


13th December - Washington Post - United States
World off track on goal of school for all children
... according to the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a grouping of thousands of teachers' unions and civil society groups including Save the Children ...


13th December - Adult Learning Australia
Global School Report
The world is far from achieving its education targets with 72 million still out of school and 774 million illiterate adults . These disturbing figures are some of the findings in the recently released Global School Report which can be ...


12th December - Voice of America - USA
Less Than Half of World's Chlidren Complete Primary School
Naomi Schwarz has more from Dakar. In 2000, when the United Nations and world leaders made universal primary education one of their eight millennium ...


11th December - Politics.co.uk - UK
Global School Report looking at 178 countries - from Haiti to Norway
It's time for governments to respond to the demands of children and stop with their excuses," said Kailash Satyarthi , President of the Global Campaign for ...
 

10th December - Sud Quotidien -  Senegal
Un partenariat mondial contre la crise de l'éducation
Sud Quotidien - 10 déc 2007
Enfin, la coalition des ONG d'éducation Gce (Global campaign for education) apporte également son soutien à l'Initiative. Bien qu'elle présente l'avantage ...


10th December - Common Dreams - USA
Global Campaign for Education: World Off Track To Meet Education ...
It's time for governments to respond to the demands of children and stop with their excuses," said Kailash Satyarthi, President of the Global Campaign for ...


Nov 2 - Pasadenda Weekly - USA
Action matches talk at pricey but productive Clinton Global ...
Jolie is the honorary chair of the US Global Campaign for Education and a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...


Nov 1 - Pasadenda Weekly - USA
Action matches talk at pricey but productive Clinton Global...
Jolie is the honorary chair of the US Global Campaign for Education and a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...


Oct 25 - Media for Freedom - Nepal
"Failure" to educate world's poor
The world's richest countries are failing to provide the funds needed for education in the developing world, the Global Campaign for Education has said. ...


Oct 18 - Center for American Progress - USA
Decent Work: Forging a New International Consensus on Globalization
... Senegal, where he delivered one of the keynote addresses; he currently serves as the US chair of the Global Campaign for Education. ...


Oct 17 - Independent - UK
Nigeria: Learning the hard way
The Global Campaign for Education , which is an international coalition of NGOs campaigning for more donor aid, says donations must be stepped up if the ...


July 10th - Business Day - Nigeria
Civil societies task Yar'Adua
Felicia Onibon, the National Moderator of Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA), made the call at a news conference yesterday in ...
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July 4th - This Day - Nigeria
Civil Society Group Rises Against Child Labour
Briefing journalists during its Global Action Week (GAW) 2007, held in Lagos, the focal representative of the group, Dr. Chudi Ihenacho, explained that it ...


July 3rd - This is Lancashire - UK
Linking up to help educate the world
... was formed at Unsworth County Primary school in Parr Lane as part of the pupils' commitment to support the Join Up Send My Friend to School initiative. ...


June 20 - Malawi Times - Malawi
G8 feed world with words on education
Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
At the conclusion of the summit, they only reaffirmed promises made in 2000 in Dakar that "no country seriously committed to ' Education for All' will be ...


June 13 - Global Movement for Children
Global Campaign for Education / Educate every child / 10 ...
GCE's rallying cry for 2007 is 'JOIN UP Education Rights Now'. The theme was inspired by Nelson Mandela's words to young GCE campaigners in April 2006: "You ...


June 12th - NewsBlaze - USA
Grassroots Activist Made Ending Child Labor Global Cause
In 1999, he began the Global Campaign for Education, which links national and international nongovernmental organizations to promote universal education. ...


June 10th - Scoop - New Zealand
Warm Words, Little Action from G8
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) has issued a guarded welcome to the constructive wording on education offered up in this year's G8 communiqué but is ...  


June 10th - Media for Freedom - Nepal
Warm Words, Little Action from G8
Of particular note is the affirmation of the Dakar pledge that 'no country seriously committed to 'Education for All' will be thwarted in their achievement ...  


June 10th - UK
McFly show support for education for all campaign
By Staff Reporter POP band McFly have pledged their support to the Global Campaign For Education's "Join Up" petition. The band, including Bolton-born ...


June 8th - Media For Freedom - Bangladesh
Quality teachers a must for quality education
... (CAMPE) and People's Empowerment Trust (PET) at the LGED auditorium in the city as part of the Global Action Week that was observed from April 24 to 30. ...


June 6th - Bolton News - UK
McFly show support for education for all campaign
By Staff Reporter. POP band McFly have pledged their support to the Global Campaign For Education's "Join Up" petition. The band, including Bolton-born ...


June 6th - PR Leap - USA
McFly Join Up to the Global Campaign for Education
COM) The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) aims to help the 80 million children globally who are missing out on school and UK band McFly are helping them ...


June 6th - Scotsman - UK
Pupils joining Global effort
Pupils from the Leith school are joining Edinburgh North and Leith MP Mark Lazarowicz to show their support for the 'Join Up' Global Campaign for Education.


June 6th - PR - UK
Press Release - McFly Join Up to the Global Campaign for Education
For information on the GCE's Join Up campaign go to www.sendmyfriend.org. Global Campaign for Education PR Contact: Sophie King Comic Relief 5th Floor ...


June 5th - The Guardian - UK
What's the forecast for Africa?
Introduce younger children to the Send My Friend to School campaign ( www.sendmyfriend.org/teachers/background_info/the_slide_show.php) before watching a ...


June 5th - UK
McFly Join Up to the Global Campaign for Education
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) aims to help the 80 million children globally who are missing out on school and UK band McFly are helping them ...


June 1st - WebWire - USA
McFly Join Up to the Global Campaign for Education
It believes that quality education for all is achievable, and that the immense costs of failure far outweigh any cost. For instance, getting every child ...


June 1st - Scotsman - UK
Pupils to lend a hand to campaign for education
Pupils from Leith Walk Primary School will join campaigners in their classrooms this week in a show of support for the Global Campaign for Education, ...


May 25th - Pressbox - UK
Global Campaign for Education gets people to Join Up


May 22nd - WebWire - UK
WebWire | Global Campaign for Education gets people to Join Up
There are over 80 million children globally who are missing out on school. Two thirds of them are girls. 46 million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa.


May 22nd - PR Leap - USA
Global Campaign for Education gets people to Join Up
COM) Join Up Global Campaign for Education aims to help the 80 million children globally who are missing out on school. There are over 80 million children ...


May 22nd - UKPRwire - UK
Global Campaign for Education gets people to Join Up
Join Up Global Campaign for Education aims to help the 80 million children globally who are missing out on school. [UKPRwire, Tue May 22 2007] There are ...


May 22nd - BBC News - Worldwide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6610000/
newsid_6617500/6617577.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm

A meeting of EU ministers has failed to deliver on a promise to ensure all children receive primary school education by 2015.


May 20th - McFly blog - UK
HELP McFLY!!
Hey Eveyone, 80 million kids across the world are missing out on an education. The Global Campaign for Education is all about telling world leaders that this isn't right, and asking them to keep the p...

May 18th - CBBC Newsround - UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4240000/newsid_4246300/4246393.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6660000/newsid_6665600/6665635.stm
Globalisation: Getting an education.... Newsround went on a trip to Ghana with Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer.


May 17th - CBBC Newsround - UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6660000/newsid_6665800/6665817.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6660000/newsid_6666100/6666195.stm
Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer has visited Africa to find out about a campaign which aims to make sure that all children can go to school.


May 17th - CBBC Newsround - UK
In pictures: Dani Harmer in Ghana
The Global Campaign For Education says that 80 million children across the world are not able to get an education. Dani meets some local children during her ...


May 16th - Warwick Courier - UK
Kids want education for all
Warwick Courier - Warwick,England,UK
Pupils and staff at Crackley Hall school created a human chain in support of the Global Campaign for Education. Every child in the school had made a paper ...


May 16th - Rwanda
Rwanda has joined other campaigners from over countries in the ...
Rwanda and Kenya have already completed their reviews while South Africa and Algeria would submit themselves for review in July this year. Genocide Ideology and strategies for its eradication was officially launched by President Paul ...


May 15th - AllAfrica.com - Rwanda
Rwanda: Volunteers Appeal to Parents On MDGs
She said that VSO together with other NGOs the world over through the 'Global Campaign for Education' initiative were doing everything possible to influence ... 
May 14th - Littlehampton Today - UK
Chain of children championing change
Children from years 5 and 6 spearheaded the scheme at the school after learning about the global campaign for education in their citizenship lessons. ...
 

May 14th - AllAfrica.com - Nigera
Nigeria: FG Approves N10bn to Upgrade Grade II Teachers
Minister of Education, Dr. Sayyadi Abbah Ruma disclosed this at a news conference to herald this year's global Education For All (EFA) Week, an annual event ...


May 12th - Peace Journalism - Nepal
Our Children:Right to Education
PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal
Some 60 million girls and 40 million boys are still out of school, the Global Campaign for Education estimates. The benefits of education to both children ...


May 11th - Financial Express - Bangladesh
Ensuring education for all
The Global Action Week (GAW) is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Education for All (EFA). It takes place once a year in April. ...


May 10th - The Independant - UK
http://education.independent.co.uk/schools/article2525262.ece
Why can't all children go to primary school? Gordon Brown invited young people to Brussels last week in an attempt to drum up support (and cash) for his dream of universal primary education. But not everything went to plan.

May 10th - Scoop - NewZealand
Studies show Government needs to increase aid
On 1 May 2007, the Global Campaign for Education released its 2007 annual report, ranking New Zealand with a 'C' grade for significantly increasing the ...


May 9th - Atlanta Journal Constitution - USA
US can help world's children get opportunity for education
Gene Sperling, former economic adviser for President Bill Clinton and chairman of the US chapter of the Global Campaign for Education, recently told the ...


May 9th - WebWire - USA
Misleading Claims by World Bank and European Commission on ...
... Netherlands and UK", alleged Kailash Satyarthi, President, Global Campaign for Education and Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour. ...


May 8th - WebWire - USA
Youth Advocates' Voices Echo on Capitol Hill during Global Action Week
the country are joining hands on this occasion of Global Action Week. He demanded that the US administration must enhance its overseas aid to.


May 8th - Jamaica Observer - Jamaica
Education: will the election manifestos speak?
It seems to me that it is critical that we regard social education as not simply something that is desirable but as indispensable in education for all . ...


May 7th - Jamaica Observer - Jamaica
Let's make the most of Education Week
... keep pace with the thrust by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to achieve quality education for all by 2015. ...


May 5th - EurActiv.com - Belgium
Young leaders call for EU commitment on education
... calls for a new international consensus behind education, a repositioning of the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) to inspire and engage ...


May 5th - ChristianToday - UK
Micah Challenge Welcomes New African Education Funding
"However, in order to ensure quality education for all children, all donor financial and technical assistance to education must prioritise and support ...


May 5th - IRIN - USA
AFRICA: Support budgets to improve health and education services
The 'Education for All Fast Track Initiative', in terms of which developing countries promise to draw up realistic, long-term education-sector plans and ...


May 5th - Jakarta Post - Indonesia
From one sort of exclusion to another: Logic in education
Indonesia has affirmed its commitment to achieving the six goals of Education for All (EFA) by the year 2015, which is mandated through the "Framework for ...


May 5th - NDTV - India
World Bank chief raps US
Kinshu Kumar was once a child labourer in India is now top of the class and a beacon for the Global Campaign for Education. ...


May 5th - Royston Mercury - UK
Pupils' daisy chain plea to world leader
The paper chain is part of the Monks Walk school's participation in the 'Global Campaign for Education' and is emblazoned with the words 'Send My Friend to ...


May 5th - Tehelka - India
Questions that Open Answers
The summit on April 27 was timed with unesco's Education for All week, held from April 23. Speaking of the reservation issue, one of the most hotly ...


May 4 - NDTV - India
World Bank chief raps US
World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz was at the European Commission HQ in Brussels on behalf of the Bank to drum up support for the goal of giving every child in


May 4th - Ekklesia - UK
Global campaign backs orphan aid and free primary education
... made the plea at a news conference held last week in conjunction with Global Campaign for Education Week and an orphans advocacy group. ...


May 3rd - UK
Campaign aims to secure free education
Pupils at a Croydon school joined up paperchains as part of a global campaign to get as many children into education as possible. The pupils from the New Life Christian School in Croydon made paperchain people of themselves which they have now sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkell.


May 3rd - AllAfrica.com - Liberia
Liberia: Soros Makes $5 Million Pledge To Fill Gap in Official ...
Following is the text of a speech by global financier and philanthropist George Soros, delivered to the "Keeping our Promises on Education" conference ...


May 3rd - UK
Pupils’ chain reaction
PUPILS from a school in Buntingford have sent a message to the German Chancellor in a bid to promote worldwide education. Youngsters at Millfield First School teamed up with thousands of others from around the world to take part in the Global Campaign for Education (GCE).


May 3rd - GreaterKashmire.com - India
News In Brief
Islamabad: In connection with the ' Education for All Week a function was organized in government Middle School, Panchalthan. About more than 500 students of ...


May 3rd - Herts 24 - UK
Pupils' chain reaction
Youngsters at Millfield First School teamed up with thousands of others from around the world to take part in the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). ...

 
May 3rd - the Nation - Malawi
Gains of school fees abolition
As the world reflects on progress towards achieving the six Education for All (EFA) goals and under the theme "Education as a human right" during this ...


May 3rd - ABC color
Niños piden mejor educación para combatir la pobreza
BRUSELAS. (EFE). Niños de todos los continentes pidieron ayer en una conferencia ministerial en Bruselas a los líderes de los países desarrollados que ...


May 3rd - Los Tiempos - Spain
Niños piden educación básica universal como mejor arma para ...
Niños de todos los continentes pidieron hoy en una conferencia ministerial en Bruselas a los líderes de los países desarrollados que destinen los recursos ...


 May 3rd - Diario Libre - Spain
Niños piden educación básica universal como mejor arma para ...
BRUSELAS.- Niños de todos los continentes pidieron hoy en una conferencia ministerial en Bruselas a los líderes de los países desarrollados que destinen los ...


May 3rd - Terra Espana - Spain
Niños piden educación básica universal como mejor arma para ...
Niños de todos los continentes pidieron hoy en una conferencia ministerial en Bruselas a los líderes de los países desarrollados que destinen los recursos ...


May 2nd - KTVZ - USA
Smith, Bono team for global education
... Save the Children, DATA, The International Rescue Committee, World Learning, The Global AIDS Alliance, The US Global Campaign for Education, RESULTS, ...


May 2nd - All American Patriots - Sweden
Bono Joins Lowey, Clinton, Smith, and Bachus in Unveiling ...
"We are introducing the Education for All Act because we have the capacity, responsibility, and opportunity to help. All it takes now is the will, ...


May 2nd - BBC - UK
Global alliance 'to educate all'
Businesses are joining forces with governments and international groups to try to meet a pledge to provide education for all children by 2015. ...
 

May 2nd - Bahrain
SHAIKH MOHAMMED ADDRESSES BRUSSELS CONFERENCE
THE EVENT FOCUSES ON WORLD STATES' COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION FOR ALL AND OTHER UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. PARTICIPANTS AT THE CONFERENCE INCLUDE ...


May 2nd - EU Politix - Belgium
Wolfowitz stays tight-lipped on partner scandal
Meanwhile, the Global Campaign for Education issued a report today which criticises the world's richest countries for failing to fund basic education in the ...
 

May 2nd - The Herald - UK
Why school's out for so many desperate to learn
And if these bright young women were to fulfil their ambitions to become doctors and teachers and community leaders, they needed to go further. ...


 May 2nd - Levante - Spain
España está a la cola en ayuda al desarrollo de la enseñanza para ...
España es uno de los países desarrollados que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la educación para los países pobres, según los datos publicados ayer por la ...


May 2nd - Brussels - Financial Times
Wolfowitz appeals for focus on World Bank Work
http://biznes.onet.pl/14,1408630,,3255,ft.html
If Paul Wolfowitz needed to summon up any courage before venturing into the wolf's lair of Europe, he could have consulted one of his co-stars at the Education for All conference. Freeman Gadri, who addressed the assembled ministers and business executives pledging money for primary school places, spent five years enslaved to a Ghanaian fisherman. He was beaten, half-starved and spent hours in the cold waters of Lake Volta untangling nets.


May 2nd - Channel 4 News - UK
World leaders are failing to live up to their promises to fund basic education for millions of children in the poorest countries, campaigners claim. ...


May 1st - Mirror - UK
GORD PLEA TO AID 800 MILLION KIDS
The Chancellor wants them to pledge the huge sums needed to help poor families across the globe. Britain, the only major country abiding by its promises, ...


May 1st - Guardian - UK
'If we wait for aid, we wait for ever'
The promise is that it will all be paid in the end, but the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), the international coalition of NGOs campaigning for more ...


May 1st - La Razon - Spain
España, a la cola de los países ricos en ayuda a la educación en ...
madrid- España es uno de los países desarrollados que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la educación para los países pobres. ...


May 1st - ABC
España, entre los países que menos ayudan al progreso educativo de ...
BRUSELAS. España es uno de los países desarrollados que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la educación para los países pobres, según datos publicados ayer por ...


May 1st - Terra Espana - Spain
España entre países donantes que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la ...
España es uno de los países desarrollados que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la educación para los países pobres, según datos publicados hoy por la ...


May 1st - El Dia - Tenerife
España, entre los que menos ayudan a la educación en los países pobres
España es uno de los países desarrollados que menos esfuerzo hace en ayuda a la educación para los países pobres, según datos publicados ayer por la ...

May 1st - eGov Monitor - UK
MP supports calls for an education for every child
Stourbridge MP, Lynda Waltho on April 26, 2007 Joined Up to the Global Campaign for Education, the world's largest children's campaign to demand that the 80 ...


May 1st - AllAfrica.com - Rwanda
Rwanda: Country Joins Global Campaign for Education
Rwanda has joined other campaigners from over 100 countries in the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). This was revealed by the programme manager for ...


May 1st - Daily Times - Malawi
Govt asked to do more for teachers
The committee is optimistic that this is attainable if our country is really committed to achieve education for all by 2015," he said. ...


May 1st - Daily Times - Pakistan
CLC organises awareness walk as Education Week ends
... and the Pakistan Private Schools Welfare Association (APPSWA), organised an awareness walk at the end of Global Action Week for Education on Friday. ...


May 1st - AllAfrica.om - Ghana
Ghana: Reducing Poverty in Northern Ghana Through Quality Education
NNED Coordinator Eric Dourinaah said this is in spite of seven years into the Education For All (EFA) campaign and with the introduction of the Capitation ...


May 1st - Daily Times - Malawi
Malawi short of 19000 teachers
Malawi will likely miss the 1015 benchmark for quality education because of its poor performance on Education For All (EFA) goals, a Unesco official has ...


May 1st - AllAfrica.com - Mozambique
 Mozambique: Government Calls Private Sector to Help in Education
He was speaking shortly after receiving a petition from the Education For All Movement (MEPT), that was involved, throughout last week, in activities to ...


April 30th - AllAfrica.com - USA
Liberia: LETCOM Wants Education Law Respected
"In 2005, 'Send My Friend To School' was the key message of campaign and advocacy. Programs and activities were planned and executed in three counties," he ...


30th April - Public Agenda - Ghana
http://allafrica.com/stories/200704301174.html
Ghana: Reducing Poverty in Northern Ghana Through Quality Education.  "Education is a human right and we believe it is the only way of breaking the cycle of poverty," says Mr. Hamza Tijani, of Ibis West Africa.


April 28th - Daily Times - Pakistan
Children make chain to symbolise education for all
She further said 2007 was a crucial year as it marks the mid-point on the timeline to achieve the Education For All (EFA) goals. Rabia said that the PCE, ...


April 28th - The Daily Star - Bangladesh
 Quality should count equally in education
pledge their efforts to ensure education for all by 2015. Campe, Unesco, The Daily Star and Brac University jointly organised the roundtable at Dhaka ...


April 28th - Daily Times - Pakistan
Ranjha asks clerics to endorse education
He was addressing a seminar on the Global Campaign for Education for All under the aegis of Pakistan Association for Adult and Continuing Education (PACADE) ...


April 28th - Sun.Star - Philippines
Oledan: Global chain
The Global Action Week for Education is the United Nation's Education For All (EFA) drive to achieve universal education for all regardless of income. ...


April 28th - OneWorld - South Asia
Global Action Week 2007 – Education for All
... schools and monuments in over 40 cities will be encircled by human chains and giant puppets and wearing Education for All bibs made in their schools. ...


April 28th - Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
Free primary education: A step towards 2015 education goals
In 2000, Malawi ratified the Education for All goals at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal. As the country observes Education Global Week of Action ...


April 28th - Indian Catholic - India
"Education for all" fair begins in capital
The theme of the programme as "Education as Human Right" was to make people conscious about education. More than 300 students participated in activities ...
 

April 28th - News 24 - South Africa
US honours Kenyan students
The video was presented in honour of the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's Education for All week. In a visit to Ghana last January, ...


April 28th - Pioneer Press - USA
Mrs. Bush highlights Africans' education
UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Education for All week. In a visit to Ghana last January, the first lady announced a component of ...

April 28th - UNESCO - Vietnam
Global Action Week at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Secondary School
... made human chains proclaiming the importance of Education for All (EFA) at a national forum for Global Action Week on 25 April in Hanoi, Viet Nam. ...
 

April 28th - UNESCO - Vietnam
Global Action Week: "Education: a right and a tool to fight poverty"
... Education explains the importance of Education for All to Viet Nam's major English language daily, Viet Nam News, on the occasion of Global Action Week. ...


April 27th - UNDPI - Armenia
United Nations Department of Public Information
The members of the GCE Armenian Coalition presented the work done under the slogan "JOIN UPEducation Rights Now!" within the framework of Global Action ...


April 27 - Hindu - India
Around the City
... Action Week of Global Campaign for Education by Aide et Action along with the National Coalition for Education and other non-government organisations. ...


April 27 - Jakarta Post - Indonesia
Education a basic right, say groups
The Education For All (EFA) Global Action Week will be held internationally through the last week of April, the work of various groups wanting to drum up ...


April 27 - New Statesman - UK
Global Education Action Week
The Global Campaign for Education also invites people to show their support by signing up to an online chain on its Join up! website, which currently has ...


April 27 - ic Wales - UK
Pupils remind world how poverty hits education
The Global Week of Action for this year's campaign runs this week until Sunday and will see young people in 120 countries join to campaign for the right for ...


April 27 - Daily Times - Pakistan
UNESCO to organise walks to mark Global Action Week
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO will organise walks today (Friday) to mark the Global Action Week (GAW) across the country. ...
 

April 26th - UNESCO - France
Global Action Week - 26 April: Education "webchat" with US experts
On Thursday 26 April at 1500 GMT, the US Mission to UNESCO will host an online discussion. The "webchat" will highlight UNESCO's role in ...  


April 26th - Jakarta Post - Indonesia

Education a basic right, say groups
Global Action Week was initiated by the Global Campaign on Education (GCE), an international network of non-governmental groups established in Dakar, ...
   

April 26th - Council of Foreign Relations - USA

Council Highlights Global Campaign For Education Week (April 23-29 ...
Council on Foreign Relations - New York,NY,USA
The Council's Center for Universal Education has partnered with PBS Wide Angle as well as Channel Thirteen and the US Global Campaign for Education to ...
April 26th - Andy Reed MP - UK
Local MP Joins World's Biggest Children Campaign to Demand Every ...
Andy Reed MP today Joined Up to the Global Campaign for Education, the world's largest children's campaign to demand that the 80 million children who are currently out of school are no longer denied their right to an education. ...


April 26th - AllAfrica.com - Kenya
Kenya: It's Tough Task Taking All to School And Ending Illiteracy
... the world first committed itself to providing education for all and then set out six goals to guide development and expansion of education and training. ...


April 26th - Fox 8 News - USA
Laura Bush Highlights Africans' Education
The video was presented in honor of the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Education for All week. In a visit to Ghana last January, ...


April 26th - Vietnam News - Vietnam
A basic human right, education is also a tool to eradicate poverty
In honour of this week's Global Action Week for Education, experts share their opinions on the UN's Education For All (EFA) drive to achieve universal ...


April 26th - PR Newswire - UK
Teachers and Students Around the World Join up to Demand Education ...
That's why Education International (EI) is working with the Global Campaign for Education to raise awareness of the enormous gap between the right of ...


April 26th - NasirAl-Amin
Get all girls into school and give them a fighting chance against HIV
The Global Campaign for Education is calling on world leaders to join up and take urgent action now. They must ensure everyone, especially girls, can go to school and get the education needed to fight for their rights. ...


April 25th - Calcutta Telegraph - India
Young voices for education
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Ranchi remains no exception in the world-wide celebration of Global Action Week that starts from tomorrow. The Jharkhand chapter of Christian Children Fund ...

April 24th - Business Wire - USA
Remarks by the First Lady at the Launch of the President's Africa ...
Yesterday began UNESCO's Education for All Week -- a time when the world renews its commitment to education. Governments are reminded of their ...


April 24th - GreaterKashmir.com - India Education for all' week
In this connection, thousands of school children on Tuesday in various schools of Valley pledged to work for the cause of education for all. ...  


24th April - AllAfrica.com - Rwanda

Rwanda: NGOs Press for Swifter 'Education for All' Pace
The coalition of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Rwanda is pressing for a swifter pace of global campaign for Education for All. ...  


April 24th - UNESCO
Title Global Action week: Senegalese star Baaba Maal promotes ...
24-04-2007 - "Education is the best way to fight poverty" said world music star Baaba Maal at the press launch of Global Action Week in Dakar, Senegal. ...


April 23rd - 29th - New Statesman
http://www.newstatesman.com/200704250006
Summary of Events going on around the world during Global Campaign for Education Action Week on our website. We are inviting children, teachers and other global education supporters to send in their experiences, comments and pictures of what they have been doing.  

   

April 23rd - UNICEF
Global Action Week on Education
23 April 2007 - The Global Action Week is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Education for All. It takes place once a year in ...


April 23rd - UNICEF - USA
On Global Action Week on Education, millions of children still not ...
NEW YORK, 23 April 2007 – As the world celebrates Global Action Week on Education, UNICEF urges donors and governments to keep their promises on education ...


April 23rd - UNESCO - Afghanistan
Global Action Week : zoom on Afghanistan
To mark Global Action Week, 23-29 April, UNESCO is organizing a photo exhibition in homage to leading Afghan defender of girls' education, Safia Ama Jan, ...


April 23rd - Joy Online - Ghana
Recruit intelligent people for teaching under NYEP
... with the Gomoa District Directorate of Education for stakeholders in education at Gomoa Ankamu near Apam as part of the Global Action Week. ...


April 23rd - MRT - Macedonia
Campaign - children in education process
A campaign in the framework of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE)'s global action week on the inclusion of children and young people in education, ...


April 23rd - Daily Nation - Kenya
Hire more teachers, urge NGOs
The NGOs were launching a programme of activities to mark the Global Campaign for Education action week. "Inadequate number of teachers is a key factor ...


April 22 - Nottingham, UK
...AND HERE'S ANOTHER, FAMOUS ONE!
Rushcliffe Mp Ken Clarke has backed a campaign to give the world's poorest children a chance to learn.


April 20th - Blogging IT and Education
Global Action Week for Education - April 23rd - 29th
To return to the present VSO (who I went with) are taking part in the Global Campaign for Education week which has has the focus:. JOIN UP : Education Rights Now! In 2007, more than 6 million campaigners in over 120 countries will 'JOIN ...


April 20 - BBC - UK
1400 pupils form world map demo
Nearly 1,400 Aberystwyth school children have formed a human "map" of the world to raise awareness about the state of education in poor countries.


April 20 - Nottingham, UK
MP BACKS EDUCATION FOR ALL
Mr Clarke joined pupils from Gamston's Pierrepont Gamston Primary School ahead of a global action week to provide education for all.


April 18th - Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
Malawi failing to make education for all possible by 2015
Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
Education campaigners, through a movement called Global Campaign for Education, have asked government and its partners to achieve Education For All (EFA) ...


April 18 - AllAfrica.com - Nigeria
Nigeria: Education Campaign Focuses On Human Right
The 2007 Global Action Week, the worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Education for All (EFA) is here. The event takes place once a ...


April 18th - Philippine Star - Philippines
Unesco holds media training in Hanoi
The workshop is timely for the annual Education For All (EFA) Global Action Week celebrated from April 23 to 29, and participants are encouraged to cover ...


April 16 - Kykernal - USA
Human rights activist to speak on child labor
He also serves as the President of the Global Campaign for Education. Satyarthi is an advocate for global education, which involves the Quadrangular ...


April 16 - Calcutta Telegraph - India
Meet to plan event course

Ranchi, April 16: The eastern zone of the Christian Children Fund (CCF), India, met today to discuss the preparations for the Global Action Week of ...


April 14 - Global Education Week (blog)
Global Education Week (Guest Blog)
On April 23rd to the 29th, the US Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education will bring youth activists from around the United States and the world to lobby policy makers in Washington DC about the need for education for all. ...


April 13 - International Reading Association
"Education as a Human Right" is theme of Global Action Week
"Education as a Human Right" is the theme of the 2007 Global Action Week (April 23-29). Global Action Week is organized by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a UNESCO partner. Educators and other stakeholders are urged to sign up. ...


April 12 - JOIN UP - Priscilla Brice-Weller

Join up
The Global Campaign for Education has launched Join Up, a campaign for education rights. This site is beautifully designed, both in concept and design. To take action, you can create an avatar of yourself that looks kind of like the ...


April 10 - UK
England: Hamsey Green Junior School, Surrey (entry 1)
Over the last five years millions of people of all ages have joined together in over 120 countries to take part in the Global Campaign for Education. This enabled 20 million children to have an education, but there are still 80 million ...

April 1 - Hemelhempstead Today - UK
Schools link to teach the world
Comic Relief joined up with the Global Campaign for Education, and asked teachers and children to join up making real and virtual chains of buddies to world ...


March 11 - Schools Library Association - UK
Send my friend to school

The Global Campaign for Education is launching a new campaign, Send My Friend to School, which amongst other things encourages children to send paperchains of figures to Dr Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, by June 6th 2007. ...


March 8 - CRIN - Global
Women's Day 'travesty'
Two years on it is a travesty that the international community continues to stand by as millions of girls are denied their rights to a life-saving education" - Maria Khan, Global Campaign for Education, International Women's Day, ...


February 9 - educacion en valores
Children from 9 european countries and Senegal will join up to ...
 deliver Mandel's ... Campaign for Education (GCE) 2007 theme, JOIN UP Education Rights Now', ...


February 8 - Guardian - UK
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2008238,00.html
Brown to press G7 finance ministers to live up to promises on education


February 8 - The Times - UK

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article1350466.ece Plans to bring a primary school education to every child in the world will be at the top of Britain's agenda at the G7 finance ministers' meeting in Germany this weekend, the Treasury said yesterday.


February 6 - Guardian - UK
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2006224,00.html
A Voice for the voiceless
- We had 80 million reasons for going to Brussels - the 80 million children who have never been to school.


February 7 - This Day - Nigeria 
Civil Society Advocates Domestication of Child Rights Act
... 2007-2008 CSACEFA work plan, National and State education situation reports and Global Campaign on Education 2007 Global Action Week. ...


January 31st - Newham Recorder - UK
Pupils in Downing Strreet visit
Send My Friend to School. This year, organisers Global Campaign for Education (GCE) - a coalition of teachers' unions and major international development ...


January 30 - Education International
http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=351&theme=educationforall&country=global
... (MEP) Glenys Kinnock in her introductory speech at the European launch of the Global Action Week 2007 Campaign: Join Up for Education Rights Now! ...


January 30 - Socialist Group, European Parliament - Brussels
http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/pressdetail.do?lg=en&id=27088&href=home
Glenys Kinnock MEP, Labours spokesperson in the European Parliament on International Development, today graded world leaders' efforts to ensure all the world's children received their right to an education with a 'must do better'.


January 30 - El Pais - Spain
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Educar/enviar/guerra/
elpepusoc/20070131elpepisoc_11/Tes

¿Educar o enviar a la guerra?
Niños europeos y de Senegal piden a los países ricos que cumplan sus promesas de ayudar a educar a los pequeños de naciones pobres


January 30 - LBC Radio - London, UK
Click to hear radio interview
Glenys Kinnock MEP hosts GCE's child campaigners in the European Parliament, and is interviewed on radio.


January 25 - Bachpan Bachao Andolan - India
http://www.bba.org.in/news/180107.php
While meeting with 5 former child laborers turned child activists along with Kailash Satyarthi, the Chairperson of Global Campaign fro Education (GCE), Mr. Brown said that he and his Government are committed towards education.


January 19th - First News - UK
I want to go to school
World leaders have promised to sort out the problem and say that every child in the world will go to primary school by 2015. This week the Global Campaign for Education have launched JOIN UP!  To read more pick up your latest copy of First News.


Jan 16 - Guardian - UK
Follow our lead, Brown urges
There are four schoolchildren in the delegation to No 11 to quiz the chancellor about his commitment to universal education... What they want to hear during their visit to Downing Street... is a guarantee from the chancellor that he will pull his weight and persuade other developed countries to commit to getting every child in the world into primary school.

January 6 - BBC - UK
BBC - Action Network - Global Campaign for Education
In 2006 the campaign slogan is JOIN UP! Education Rights Now. Around the world children, parents, teachers and campaigners will join hands in person, ...


Jan 5 - OneWorld.net
Oprah and Gordon 'Could Do Much More for Girls'
This is where the Global Campaign for Education and national campaigns on education play a key role. In the past five years education campaigns have emerged ...


Januay 4 - Joburg - South Africa
Libraries focus on
The Global Campaign for Education found that dealing with adult illiteracy lead to the development of active citizenship, improved health and livelihood, ...


Jan 4 - Bloomberg
Gordon Brown Calls for Links Between Schools in UK, Africa
The Global Campaign for Education, a coalition of civil- society groups including Oxfam and Action Aid, said in September richer countries need to give a ...


Jan 4 - Kuwait News Agency - Kuwait
Brown calls for world action on "slavery of ignorance"
Last April, Brown visited Mozambique to promote the "Global Campaign for Education". He called on other developed countries to spend 100 billion dollars (57 ...


Jan 3 - Guardian - UK
Our 2p pledge to all children
In 2007 the Global Campaign for Education is asking schoolchildren to press those in power to ensure that all children in developing countries go to school. ...


January 1 - VSO
VSO - Awareness & Action - Taking Action - Education
JOIN UP! and get involved with the Global Campaign for Education during 2007 along with 5.5 million others around the world for education rights now! ...


January 1 - Child Rights Information Network
CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - Resources -
Find out more about how to JOIN UP! And take part in the world's biggest chain demanding EDUCATION RIGHTS NOW! Log on to www.campaignforeducation.org ...



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