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- [UN SPECIAL ENVOY GORDON BROWN BACKS PLAN TO GET 1 MILLION SYRIAN REFUGEES TO SCHOOL ](https://educationenvoy.org/un-special-envoy-gordon-brown-backs-plan-to-get-1-million-syrian-refugees-to-school/) - Statement by Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Thursday, 10 September 2015, 12:00 EST Brown backs new plan to enroll 1 million Syrian refugees into school in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon Calls on international community to provide $250 million in resources to support international agencies and governments to deliver education for Syrian
- [Statement from Gordon Brown on 500 Day Anniversary of Chibok Kidnapping ](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-500-day-anniversary-of-chibok-kidnapping/) - It has been 500 days since 276 young girls were abducted in Chibok Nigeria from a Government Secondary School. While 57 of these girls have escaped, 219 still remain missing and have been at risk of trafficking, forced marriage and other forms of exploitation. These were some of Nigeria’s most courageous young women who wanted nothing
- [Statement From Gordon Brown on International Youth Day](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-international-youth-day/) - On International Youth Day UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown said: “Today’s events mark a new development in thriving youth activism. Not since the end of World War Two – exactly 70 years ago – have so many children and teenagers been displaced from so many countries. And never have so many become
- [2015 is the 'Year of Fear' for children says Gordon Brown](https://educationenvoy.org/2015-is-the-year-of-fear-for-children-says-gordon-brown/) - Gordon Brown, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, summed up some of the reasons why millions of children are not at school around the world. He said: “This is not the year of the child but the year of fear.” Mr Brown addressed journalists at the UN in New York yesterday to emphasise
- [Press release: Gordon Brown in talks with President-Elect Buhari of Nigeria about missing girls](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-gordon-brown-in-talks-with-president-elect-buhari-of-nigeria-about-missing-girls/) - Gordon Brown has welcomed the release of 200 girls from captivity by Boko Haram and called for the immediate release of all abducted girls. "It is time to end the nightmare," said the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, who will have talks with President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow. "For a year families have
- [Media Release: Nobel Winners Join UN Education Envoy In Kidnapped Girls Plea](https://educationenvoy.org/media-release-nobel-winners-join-un-education-envoy-in-kidnapped-girls-plea/) - Three of the world's leading children's education campaigners have written an open letter demanding the release of 200 schoolgirls, kidnapped one year ago next week. Joint Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have joined with UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown to plead with the international community to keep
- [Statement: Brown Calls for Immediate Release of Student Victims in Kenya University Attack](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-brown-call-for-immediate-release-of-student-victims-in-kenya-university-attack/) - ​Today, gunmen burst into early morning Christian prayers at Garissa University College in Kenya- only 90 miles from the border with Somalia - taking hostages from the service, separating Christian​s​ and Muslim​s​ and shooting innocent students. The attack has been carried out by militant extremist group al-Shabab, who were responsible for the attack on the
- [Statement by UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown: “Nigerian Government joins Safe Schools Initiative with $10million commitment” ](https://educationenvoy.org/safeschoolsannouncement/) - Mr Brown said: "Today I met with President Goodluck Jonathan and the Nigerian Government has committed $10million to the Safe Schools Initiative – a programme to make sure children are protected when at school. “More than 270 girls were abducted from a school in Chibok three weeks ago. The terrorist group Boko
- [Press Release: UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown calls 2015 the year of ending the violation of the rights of the child](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release/) - Speaking from the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Mr Brown said: “It has been one month since the kidnapping of 89 South Sudanese boys from their classrooms to train then as child soldiers, "It has been three months since the Peshawar school attack where 140 were killed, "It is one year on from
- [Press Release: Mass Hostage Release Sparks Chibok Girls Plea](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-mass-hostage-release-sparks-chibok-girls-plea/) - Gordon Brown has issued a fresh plea to the kidnappers of 220 Nigerian schoolgirls to release them immediately. The former British Prime Minister urged Boko Haram militants to free the girls who were taken from the town of Chibok last April. Mr Brown, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, was speaking
- [Press Release: Prime Minister Sharif Backs New Pakistan Safe Schools Initiative and Pledges to Make it 'A Success'](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-prime-minister-sharif-backs-new-pakistan-safe-schools-initiative-and-pledges-to-make-it-a-success/) - A World at School today launches a 15-point plan for a Pakistan Safe Schools Initiative - backed fully by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and UN Special Education Envoy Gordon Brown - in a multi-million dollar campaign for girls' and boys' education. It follows an agreement between former British Prime Minister Mr Brown and Prime Minister Sharif to work
- [Statement from the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-the-office-of-the-un-special-envoy-for-global-education/) - A multi-million dollar global initiative aimed at helping protect millions of schoolgirls from violence will be launched this week following a devastating new UN report. The next phase of a Safe Schools plan will be unveiled in the wake of the Human Rights report, which claims schoolgirls and boys have been under attack in 70 countries over the past five years. The
- [Press Release: Pakistan PM Backs International Effort for Safe Schools](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-pakistan-pm-backs-international-effort-for-safe-schools/) - Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has agreed to support an initiative aimed at helping deliver Safe Schools in his country. The proposal, first put forward by UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, follows December's massacre of 132 young students at their college in Peshawar. It was the worst school atrocity of all
- [Press Release: Gordon Brown Calls for Global Emergency Education Fund](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-gordon-brown-calls-for-emergency-education-fund/) - United Nations Education Envoy Gordon Brown has called for a global emergency education fund to be established for children who are out of school because of conflict, disease or natural disasters. The former UK Prime Minister said: “We need an emergency fund for education when there are humanitarian crises. Brown lambasted governments for not committing
- [Statement From Gordon Brown on Boko Haram Attacks](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-boko-haram-attacks/) - Gordon Brown said: “It is time for the whole world to condemn Boko Haram’s evil use of young girls as suicide bombers to carry out their murderous attacks. In the first incident on Friday, a bomb strapped to a schoolgirl exploded in the centre of Maiduguri, Borno state, killing at least 20 people. Then on
- [Statement From Gordon Brown on Release of the ASER Annual Report in Pakistan](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-release-of-the-aser-annual-report-in-pakistan/) - I would like to congratulate Baela Jamil and all of the staff and participants on the fifth anniversary and launch of the ASER Annual Report for Pakistan. This trailblazing report has been instrumental in bringing to the forefront issues of out-of-school children and quality of education and learning in Pakistan. I am particularly pleased that this year’s
- [Statement by Gordon Brown on Pakistan School Attack](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-by-gordon-brown-on-pakistan-school-attack/) - Statement by Gordon Brown United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Speaking from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he is visiting schools and meeting children, Gordon Brown said: “We are already mourning a human tragedy of monstrous proportion that will bring grief to every school in the world. “No child should expect that when
- [Five Million Not at School Because of Ebola](https://educationenvoy.org/five-million-not-at-school-because-of-ebola/) - Gordon Brown has written a foreword to a new report on the Ebola crisis, ‘Ebola Emergency: Restoring Education, Creating Safe Schools and Preventing Long-term Crisis’ , which calls for the rapid reopening of schools to help five million children denied learning because of the disease. It reveals that victims of Ebola stretch far beyond those infected, with
- [Statement from Gordon Brown: Youth Up for School Launch in Kenya ](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-youth-up-for-school-launch-in-kenya/) - “I am pleased that youth from across Kenya are standing ‘Up for School’ and marking the Africa-wide launch of a new campaign to raise awareness of the need to get every child in to school and learning. Shining Hope for Communities, led by Kennedy Odede, is taking on a strong leadership role in the mobilisation
- [Statement From Gordon Brown on Chibok Girls](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-chibok-girls/) - Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, who has visited Nigeria and worked for the release of the girls, said: "We remain desperately concerned about the Chibok girls who, after six months of captivity, must be freed soon. "The good news is that we have been told they are safe but we cannot
- [Statement from Gordon Brown on Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Nobel Peace Prize Win](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-malala-yousafzai-and-kailash-satyarthi-nobel-peace-prize-win/) - “Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are the world’s greatest children’s champions. They are two of my best friends and two of the greatest global campaigners who deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for their courage, determination and for their vision that no child should ever be left behind and that every child should have the best
- [Brown Plea For Gaza Schools](https://educationenvoy.org/brown-plea-for-gaza-schools/) - 25 August 2014 Gordon Brown has called for financial support to help rebuild the destroyed schools of Gaza and ensure children can go to school. The UN Special Envoy for Global Education was speaking as it was revealed that more than 200 schools have been wiped out in air strikes and tens of thousands of
- [Press Release: UN Special Envoy Joins Celebrities, Youth, Business Leaders and More Than 100 NGOs in #EducationCountdown Campaign](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-un-special-envoy-joins-celebrities-youth-business-leaders-and-more-than-100-ngos-in-educationcountdown-campaign/) - 18 August 2014 United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown today (Monday) announces the official launch of the #EducationCountdown campaign marking the 500-day point until the end of 2015. World leaders made a promise in 2000 that every child would be in school and learning by 2015 but with exactly 500
- [Special Envoy for Global Education on International Youth Day](https://educationenvoy.org/special-envoy-for-global-education-on-international-youth-day/) - On International Youth Day, I am moved more than ever by the powerful voice of the 1.2 billion young people across the globe who are boldly taking a stand in calling for the protection of the right to education. This year's theme of mental health reminds us of the need for inclusion of every single child
- [Statement from UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-un-special-envoy-for-global-education-gordon-brown/) - “We have yet again seen another day in which 15 civilians, including children, have been killed in a UN run school compound in Gaza. Since the start of the conflict more than 133 schools have been shelled or suffered collateral damage. This includes 49 government schools and 84 UNRWA schools. This attack emphasises
- [Call For Youth Courage Award Nominations](https://educationenvoy.org/call-for-youth-courage-award-nominations/) - The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 2014 Youth Courage Awards. The inaugural set of Youth Courage Awards were announced at the United Nations, on Malala Day in 2013, honouring 6 young people who had demonstrated leadership and extraordinary courage in
- [Statement by United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-by-united-nations-special-envoy-for-global-education-gordon-brown/) - "The bombing of the UNRWA school in Gaza and the death of innocent children will be seen as an international outrage which will sadden millions throughout the world. "Schools should never be theatres of war but should be safe havens for boys and girls. "As the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
- [Vigil to Mark 100 Days of Captivity for Chibok Girls](https://educationenvoy.org/vigil-to-mark-100-days-of-captivity-for-chibok-girls/) - Vigils are to be held around the world for Nigeria’s 200 kidnapped girls of Chibok on 23 July - exactly 100 days after their abduction from school. After more than three months in captivity, the vigils will be staged at the same time in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the United States. A new online
- [World Refugee Day: Syria’s Children](https://educationenvoy.org/world-refugee-day-syrias-children/) - By Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education Today is World Refugee Day. And today the world is facing a catastrophe that has displaced and exiled more people than the Asian Tsunami of 2004 and the Haiti earthquake of 2010. For over three years 160,000 Syrians have been killed in the civil war, 2.7million have
- [Brown’s plea for Chibok girls on Day of The African Child](https://educationenvoy.org/browns-plea-for-chibok-girls-on-day-of-the-african-child/) - Gordon Brown has urged the world to remember the kidnapped girls of Chibok on the Day of The African Child. Two months after 287 girls were kidnapped from their school the UN Special Envoy for Global Education has also praised young people around the world as they mobilise to demand education for all. The Day
- ["Global education faces crisis with decline in aid” warns UN Special Envoy](https://educationenvoy.org/global-education-faces-crisis-with-decline-in-aid-warns-un-special-envoy/) - "Global education is facing a crisis following a ten percent cut in aid just at the moment the international community needs to step up efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals," said Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, in response to today’s announcement that aid to basic education has fallen according to the UNESCO
- [Statement by Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-by-gordon-brown-un-special-envoy-for-global-education-2/) - Today, the United States government has announced the deployment of 80 members of its armed forces to Chad to help in the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls of Chibok, Nigeria. I welcome the decision by the White House to support the search in Northern Nigeria and surrounding areas to help us "Bring Back Our Girls." I
- [Gordon Brown Pushes Education to the Top of the Trade Union Agenda](https://educationenvoy.org/trade-union-speech/) - 21 May, Berlin Gordon Brown called on international trade unions to join the 500-Day Countdown for Global Education, supported by the Emergency Coalition for Education, to achieve zero child labour, zero child marriage, zero discrimination against girls and zero exclusion in education. Speaking to the 1200 trade union delegates meeting in Berlin, Mr. Brown made
- [Press release: Gordon Brown invited by Nigerian President to play lead role in keeping schools safe](https://educationenvoy.org/press_release/) - Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, has been invited by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to play a lead role in the Safe Schools Initiative. Mr Brown will work with Nigerian officials on the plan, which was launched in Abuja on May 7th. The initiative, based on a report produced by A World At
- [Press Release: Children Dedicate Day to Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-children-dedicate-day-to-kidnapped-nigerian-schoolgirls/) - 15 May 2014 Millions of children across the world will dedicate a special day to the kidnapped girls of Chibok. Day of the African Child on June 16th will see events in 100 countries as young people come together to ask for safe schools in Nigeria, where the girls were abducted, and universal education across the
- [Press Release: Safe Schools Initiative Launched](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-safe-schools-initiative-launched-at-world-economic-forum/) - 7 May 2014 For Immediate Release: Safe Schools Initiative launched at World Economic Forum in Abuja, Nigeria to protect the right to education Safe Schools Initiative launched by Nigerian business leaders in partnership with government, media, civil society, youth, parents and teachers through the Global Business Coalition for Education $10 million fund to be set
- [Statement by Gordon Brown from WEF Africa](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-by-gordon-brown-un-special-envoy-for-global-education/) - The thoughts and prayers of the whole world are with Nigeria’s abducted girls and their parents as they face their fourth week in captivity. Three weeks ago I asked for international support to rescue them. Thanks to John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, and William Hague, the UK Foreign Secretary, with whom I have
- [Statement from Gordon Brown on Missing Nigerian Girls](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-from-gordon-brown-on-missing-nigerian-girls/) - The statement by Boko Haram admitting responsibility for abducting over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls is a belated admission of responsibility for a heinous crime and takes the desperate campaign to rescue the girls to a new level. We now know that the girls, who are prisoners of the terrorists, are seen as sex slaves to be
- [Press Release: Brown's Fears for 200 kidnapped Schoolgirls](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-browns-fears-for-200-kidnapped-schoolgirls/) - UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown will meet Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja next week. Mr Brown says: "I have arranged to meet President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja next week to express our fears about the fate of 200 schoolgirls who have been abducted and offer the world's support as
- [Statement on Recent School Attacks in Nigeria](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-on-recent-school-attacks-in-nigeria/) - April 15, 2015 It is time for the world to wake up to the dangers being faced by girls and boys who simply want to go to school in Nigeria. Earlier today, over 100 girls were abducted in an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria. A few weeks ago, over 40 children were murdered in
- [Global Leaders and Celebrities Team up to get 57 Million Into School](https://educationenvoy.org/global-leaders-and-celebrities-team-up-to-get-57-million-into-school/) - A high-powered group of global leaders, campaigners and celebrities will today join forces to get 57 million “lost” children into school. The Emergency Coalition for Global Education Action – convened by UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown – will be announced at a 2015 Countdown Summit to pressure the international community to take
- [Press Statement following Special Envoy's Visit to Pakistan ](https://educationenvoy.org/press-statement-following-special-envoys-visit-to-pakistan/) - A financial program to help Pakistan’s 6.7 million out-of-school children get an education was announced today by Gordon Brown with a $500 million boost for education, bringing the total global investment in education in Pakistan to more than $1 billion over the next three years. The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education pledged that
- [Gordon Brown Announces Support for Global Partnership for Education Replenishment Campaign](https://educationenvoy.org/supportforgpe/) - Following the Board Meeting of the Global Partnership for Education on February 26 in Washington, Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, released a statement in support for the GPE fund. “The upcoming year has several important moments in the sprint to the end of 2015 and the achievement of our goal of universal education.
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- [](https://educationenvoy.org/a-world-at-school/) - A World at School is new digital mobilisation initiative working towards achieving global education. The organization was created to provide a digital platform to coordinate campaigns, share information and forge collaborations. Please visit A World at School for the most up to date news, stories, and resources on global education promotion.

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- [About the Special Envoy](https://educationenvoy.org/who-we-are-2/) - Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of the 2009 London G20 summit. He was one of the
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- [News and Updates](https://educationenvoy.org/news-and-updates/) - 2016 We Must Investigate Russian-Syrian Forces' Role in This Deadly School Bombing November 29 2016 We need a Brexit deal that heals the north-south divide November 08 2016 Education Innovation in the Middle East October 26 2016 For Out-of-School Children in Haiti, Education Cannot Wait October 18 2016 Education Needs Social Enterprise October 14 2016 We
- [UN Security Council Urged To Act On Second Anniversary of Chibok Kidnappings](https://educationenvoy.org/un-security-council-urged-to-act-on-second-anniversary-of-chibok-kidnappings/) - As the world marks two years on from the mass abduction and disappearance of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown is demanding immediate action to release all of the girls still being held by Boko Haram. The location of the schoolgirls, most of whom are believed to be
- [Appointments Made to New International Commission](https://educationenvoy.org/commission/) - New York, NY (September 22, 2015) – More than twenty world leaders, including five former presidents and prime ministers and three Nobel Prize recipients, have been appointed to a new International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity to reverse the lack of financing for education around the world. The Commission, supported by the Government of
- [Press Release: $250million Secured for Syrian Refugee Education](https://educationenvoy.org/press-release-un-press-briefing/) - An urgent plan to ensure one million Syrian refugee children are in school by the end of 2016 has secured more than $250million dollars of new funding from the EU and regional donors, public and private. The bold proposal – put forward in the United Nations Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) 2016-2017 - aims
- [Justin van Fleet](https://educationenvoy.org/chief-of-staff/) - Chief of Staff Justin van Fleet is Chief of Staff to Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown, in the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. van Fleet graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in international education policy and holds a Master degree from Harvard University in the same field. Dr. van
- [Research and Reports](https://educationenvoy.org/speeches-and-research/) - 2015 Opportunities for Accelerating Progress on Education for Syrian Children and Youth in Jordan Partnering for a Better Future: Ensuring Educational Opportunity for All Syrian Refugee Children and Youth in Turkey Reaching All Children with Education in Lebanon: Opportunities for Action Scaling Up to Reach One Million Refugee Children: Accelerating Progress on Education for Syrian
- [Youth Advocacy Group](https://educationenvoy.org/youth-advocacy-group/) - Sixteen young people from around the world were selected from hundreds of young people to serve on the Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) to support the UN Secretary-General’s Education First Initiative. The YAG moves forward GEFI's three main priorities - putting every child in school, improving the quality of learning, fostering global citizenship - amongst their networks
- [MALALA DAY](https://educationenvoy.org/malala-day-2/) - In support of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative, hundreds of young leaders from around the world representing nearly 100 different countries and over 100 different partner organizations convened in support of reaching the goal of all children, especially girls, in school and learning by 2015. On her 16th birthday, Malala Yousafzai delivered
- [Gordon Brown](https://educationenvoy.org/what-we-do/) - Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is Chair of the Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative of the World Economic Forum and also serves as Distinguished Global Leader in Residence of New York University. He has recently completed a research project on globalisation and education
- [Education First](https://educationenvoy.org/education-first/) - The UN Special Envoy for Global Education strongly supports the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative and serves as an ex-officio member of the Secretary-General's Steering Committee for the initiative. Launched at the UN General Assembly in 2012, the Global Education First Initiative is led by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and
- [Global Education Platform](https://educationenvoy.org/global-education-platform/) - The Global Education Platform: Harnessing Technology to Deliver Universal Education and Skills Training to the New Global Economy Our world is afflicted by a global skills gap. The need for skilled individuals is growing rapidly while the young and marginalised lack access to the education that would allow them to meet this need. While the 2025-generation will be the
- [Gordon Brown Calls for Urgent Action for 1 Million Refugee Children](https://educationenvoy.org/gordon-brown-calls-for-urgent-action-for-1-million-refugee-children/) - ** Urgent need to support the plan to allow 1 million Syrian refugee children to return to school. ** A new global humanitarian platform to coordinate and fund education in emergencies will be established as a long-term response. ** New appointments to International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity includes international artist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- [News](https://educationenvoy.org/news-2/) - Gordon Brown Calls for Urgent Action for 1 Million Refugee Children 2 October 2015 Appointments Made to New International Commission 22 September 2015 Reading, Writing, and Refugees 14 September 2015 Why We Desperately Need to Help Syrian Refugee Children Get to School 10 September 2015 UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown Backs Plan to Get
- [Statement From Gordon Brown on the 500 Day Anniversary of Chibok Kidnapping - See more at: http://educationenvoy.org/news-2/#sthash.EeLYx3OH.dpuf](https://educationenvoy.org/news-5/) - Building the Global Schoolhouse18 May 2015 Ruthless $570-Per-Child Traffickers Exploit Nepal Tragedy15 May 2015 The Lesson of Nepal6 May 2015 UN Envoy Gordon Brown Welcomes Release of 200 Nigerian Girls Held Captive by Boko Haram29 April 2015 Press Release: Gordon Brown in Talks With President-Elect Buhari of Nigeria About Missing Girls29 April 2015 Why We
- [Scaling Up to Reach One Million Refugee Children](https://educationenvoy.org/scaling-up-to-reach-one-million-refugee-children/) - Accelerating Progress on Education for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon Executive Summary Scaling Up to Reach One Million Refugee Children: Accelerating Progress on Education for Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon September 10 2015 Opportunities for Accelerating Progress on Education for Syrian Children and Youth in Jordan September 10 2015 Partnering for
- [Action on Education in Emergencies and Funding Announced at Oslo summit](https://educationenvoy.org/action-on-education-in-emergencies-and-funding-announced-at-oslo-summit/) - World leaders have committed this week to urgent action to reverse the decline in support to education around the world. The decision came at the Oslo Education for Development Summit - the day after new figures showed the number of children out of school has gone up while aid to education has dropped. Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge
- [Global Action Works – and We Need More Of It](https://educationenvoy.org/project-syndicate/) - A Project Syndicate Series for the Oslo Summit on Education For Development. On July 6-7, the Norwegian Government will host the Oslo Summit on Education for Development in collaboration with the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. Building off of the World Education Forum in Incheon, the Summit will promote new solutions for global education in finance and
- [News](https://educationenvoy.org/news/) - Press Release: UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown calls 2015 the year of ending the violation of the rights of the child 18 March 2015 No Terrorist Should Stop a Child's Right to Education 16 March 2015 $500 a Year Can Secure the Education of a Syrian Refugee in Lebanon 10 March 2015
- [Year in Review](https://educationenvoy.org/2013-letter-from-the-special-envoy/) - The past year may yet prove to be the turning point in converting the promise of universal education into real opportunity for every child. From Malala’s inspirational speech at the United Nations to the calls to action from young people themselves in communities across the globe, there is a growing, insistent demand for our generation
- [News](https://educationenvoy.org/news2/) - Educating Against Ebola 8 December 2014 Project Syndicate Five Million Not at School Because of Ebola 3 December 2014 Statement from Gordon Brown: Youth Up for School Launch in Kenya 2 December 2014 The Children's Revolution 21 November 2014 Project Syndicate It is Time for an International Children's Court 19 November 2014 World Post Children's
- [Roadmap to 2015: Three-Point Strategy for Education](https://educationenvoy.org/roadmap-to-2015-three-point-strategy-for-education/) - On September 23, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, launched the Roadmap to 2015: Three Point Strategy for Education, in which he lays out three priorities until the end of 2015. The three point strategy includes: 1) Targeted co-ordination 2) Deadlines for delivery and 3) Ending discrimination. In 2000, world leaders promised that
- [News](https://educationenvoy.org/news-page-2/) - Press Release: UN Special Envoy Joins Celebrities, Youth, Business Leaders and More Than 100 NGOs in #EducationCountdown Campaign 18 August 2014 UN Special Envoy for Global Education on International Youth Day 5 August 2014 Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown Call for Youth Courage Award Nominations 5 August 2014 Statement from UN Special Envoy for Global
- [Statement on Attacks on Education](https://educationenvoy.org/statement-on-attacks-on-education/) - 25 August 2014 Gordon Brown has called for financial support to help rebuild the destroyed schools of Gaza and ensure children can go to school. The UN Special Envoy for Global Education was speaking as it was revealed that more than 200 schools have been wiped out in air strikes and tens of thousands of
- [Call for Youth Courage Award Nominations](https://educationenvoy.org/call-for-youth-courage-award-nominations/) - The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 2014 Youth Courage Awards. The inaugural set of Youth Courage Awards were announced at the United Nations on Malala Day in 2013, honoring 6 young people who had demonstrated leadership in the fight to get
- [Gordon Brown Thanks Donors and Advocates for Prioritizing Education in Syria Response](https://educationenvoy.org/gordon-brown-thanks-donors/) - Today, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education issued a statement thanking the donor community for its pledges of support of education for Syrian refugees in what he called “a turning point for how we finance education in conflict areas.” Last week, over 50 non-governmental organizations and international institutions endorsed a statement calling on the
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- [Learning for All](https://educationenvoy.org/learning-for-all/) - Overview Learning for All Ministerial meetings were held in April 2013 at the World Bank, bringing together ministers of finance and education from a number of countries that collectively are home to half of the world’s out-of-school children and face significant barriers to achieving the education Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Education for
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## Countries & Issues

- [Turkey](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/turkey/) - Turkey currently hosts almost 2 million Syrian refugees and is host to the largest number of refugees worldwide. There are approximately 621,000 Syrian school-aged refugee children in Turkey and 394,000 are considered out of school. Turkey’s response to the Syrian crisis has been generous and laudable. Over the past four years, the government has demonstrated
- [Jordan](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/jordan/) - Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, Jordan has served as a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking asylum, taking in 654,141 Syrian refugees, increasing from 120,018 to 490,880 between January and July 2013 alone. Unofficial estimates of unregistered refugees increase the total to 741,000 people or more. In addition
- [Lebanon](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/lebanon/) - The Syrian conflict has caused one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern times with an unprecedented loss of life and an increasingly long-term impact on the safety and stability of the region. Nowhere is the challenge of extending access to education graver than in Lebanon. One out of ten people in Lebanon is a
- [Myanmar](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/myanmar/) - After a transition to civilian rule in 2011, Myanmar is embarking on a period of extensive political, economic and social reform. The Government-led Comprehensive Education Sector Review (CESR), supported with coordinated technical expertise from over 15 Development Partners, strives to: Develop a knowledge-base on the strengths and challenges in the Myanmar education system and identify areas
- [India](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/india/) - As a direct result of different policies, declarations, and initiatives, India has made tremendous progress in the educational sector. India has gone from 79 percent of primary- school- age children in school in 1999 to 93 percent in 2010. With a population of 1.2 billion, India’s progress on access to education has made an important
- [Haiti](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/haiti/) - Haiti is at a critical juncture. It is slowly emerging from a series of external shocks that have interrupted its development for the past five years. In 2007, the Haitian economy was deeply affected by the spike in food and fuel prices. In 2008, storms and hurricanes cause widespread damage and losses estimated at approximately
- [Timor-Leste](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/timor-leste/) - In Timor-Leste, a country recovering from years of conflict, 94% of children are enrolled in Cycle 1 and 2 (primary level) of basic education. However, the number is deceiving as it does not take into account the facts that a) many children enrolled are under-aged or repeating, thus skewing the statistics, and b) many children
- [South Sudan](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/south-sudan/) - Recent years have seen some progress toward the Education for All (EFA) goals, with South Sudan’s people demonstrating extraordinary resilience in their efforts to expand learning opportunities for their children. However, South Sudan is facing an education emergency. Africa’s newest nation still has some of the world’s worst indicators for education. Low levels of enrollment
- [Pakistan](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/pakistan/) - The most recent education statistics indicate that in 2011-2 Pakistan had a national primary net enrolment rate of 68%, with 73% for boys and 63% for girls. To accelerate progress towards the MDG target of universal primary education by 2015-16, each of the eight provincial and area departments of education has developed a three-year plan
- [Nigeria](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/nigeria/) - Nigeria has experienced robust economic growth since 2001. However, the degree to which this economic achievement has had an impact on progress in human development has been low. Today, about 42 percent of primary-school-age children, or roughly 10.5 million, are out of school. Ninety percent of these out of school children never attended school. In a
- [Ethiopia](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/ethiopia/) - Ethiopia has made remarkable progress in recent years. Building on sustained economic growth and a strong determination to reduce poverty, the government had invested heavily in improving its education system. Spending on education increased from 11 percent of total spending in 1999-2000 to 25 percent (or 1.4 billion) in 2010-11. With such robust progress, achieving
- [Democratic Republic of Congo](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/democratic-republic-of-congo/) - Despite the recurrent instability, the country’s sustained economic growth and political commitment to education offers a unique opportunity to increase access to primary education. The government has already committed to increasing the budget for education to 20 percent of total government spending in 2015. However, today it is estimated that 3.5 million children of primary
- [Chad](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/chad/) - Chad is a country of 11 million people and largely rural. The country’s annual average growth rate stands at 3.6 percent. Strong demographic pressure is therefore being exerted on the education system—the school age population is projected to increase by 60 percent in 2020. Over the past ten years, the primary school completion rate has
- [Bangladesh](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/test/) - Bangladesh has made rapid progress toward many of the Education for All (EFA) goals. Enrollment rates have increased along with transition rates from primary to secondary school. Bangladesh’s achievements have been underpinned by political leadership, and by innovative partnerships between government, donors, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Despite the impressive gains that have been registered, Bangladesh
- [Afghanistan](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/afghanistan/) - Education in Afghanistan has made remarkable progress since 2001. In 2001 only one million children (almost all boys) were enrolled in schools. This year 9.7 million children are enrolled in schools, of whom 40% are girls. The number of schools has increased from 3,400 in 2001 to over 16,590, and the number of teachers has
- [Somalia](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/somalia/) - Somalia is in a state of political and social transition; from acute emergency to the early stages of development. Somalia has one of the world’s lowest enrollment rates for primary school-aged children while the number of out-of-school/at-risk children and youth is approximately half of the total population. Three overall constraints were identified in the Learning for All
- [Yemen](https://educationenvoy.org/countries_issues/yemen/) - Yemen has seen significant improvement over the past decade in reducing its out-of-school population. Net enrollment rates increased from 56 percent in 1999 to 76 percent in 2011, but despite this progress the country is still far from achieving universal primary education. The education sector faces key challenges: Access: Over 1 million children are out

## Courage Awards

- [Munira, 17, United States](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/munira-17-united-states/) - Shazia, 15, Pakistan: Shazia was the friend seated next to Malala Yousafzai on the school bus last year. She was also injured. The escalating violence has meant it is no longer safe for her in Pakistan and she has recently arrived in the UK to complete her schooling safely.
- [Rabia, 25, Pakistan](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/rabia-25-pakistan/) - Rabia was born in a rural village in Pakistan where girls do not have a voice and equal access to quality education. Through her writing, public speaking and debates, Rabia is a bold advocate for girls’ education and exposes the root causes of illiteracy in rural Pakistan. Rabia has also organized several events all over
- [Adama, 17, Sierra Leone](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/adama-17-sierra-leone/) - Adama was forced out of school because her parents sold her into marriage, against her will, to a man twice her age when she was 13 years old. She ran away from her husband and her parents would not take her back. Adama joined a community youth group, where she met girls with a similar
- [Salyne, 27, Lebanon](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/salyne-27-lebanon/) - The Youth Courage Awards for Education are awarded to select young people who have shown exemplary leadership and perseverance in standing up for the right to education, often against some of the most adverse circumstances. These young people are living examples of the plight of the 57 million out-of-school children –and their allies – who believe that every girl and boy should have the opportunity to go to school, learn and thrive in society. Award Recipients On July 12, 2013, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education announced the inaugural winners of the Youth Courage Awards:
- [Joannes, 26, Cameroon](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/joannes-26-cameroon/) - Joannes is the founder of HOPE for Children Cameroon, a community NGO with the aim of educating every child one school and one village at a time. His organization brings hope to voiceless children, mainly the underprivileged and those living with disabilities by providing them with access to quality education. Since 2011 Joannes’ organization has
- [Claire, 25, United Kingdom](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/test1/) - Claire co-founded Women LEAD in 2010 to empower young women in Nepal to take leadership positions alongside men. It’s the first and only leadership development organization for young women, led by young women, in Nepal. In 3 years, Claire has helped create a safe space for hundreds of girls. She has introduced mentoring and professional
- [Shweta, 20, India](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/shweta-20-india/) - Shweta grew up in a brothel in one of South Asia's largest and oldest Red Light Areas, Kamatipura, in Mumbai, India. Shweta faced abuse and sexual violation throughout her life. At 16, she worked intensively to make up for her lost years of education. Now, Shweta works to be able to guide and support girls who have
- [Beyan, 18, Liberia](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/beyan-18-liberia/) - Beyan was born in the slums of Konyamah, Guinea in 1996 during the Liberian civil war. He founded a youth led NGO, Youth Coalition for Education in Liberia, that is committed to building the capacity of young people, giving them the bravery and the platform to stand up and raise their voices for education. As
- [Attal, 26, Afghanistan](https://educationenvoy.org/courage_awards/attal-26-afghanistan/) - Born to illiterate parents, Attal walked 16km to a boy’s school; there was no girl’s school in his area. With his mother’s encouragement, Attal created the first “classroom” for local girls in his family’s kitchen using bits of charred wood to write lessons on the walls. Attal created shifts to accommodate the growing numbers, and

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