International Literacy Day
International Literacy Day - 8 September. Yes. It’s today, gone mostly unnoticed.
International Literacy Day
8 September
Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world.
In its resolution A/RES/56/116, the General Assembly proclaimed the ten year period beginning 1 January 2003 the United Nations Literacy Decade. In resolution A/RES/57/166, the Assembly welcomed the International Plan of Action for the Decade and decided that Unesco should take a coordinating role in activities undertaken at the international level within the framework of the Decade.
Unesco
- International Literacy Day
- UN Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
In the US, you can find additional info at the National Institute for Literacy:
But you don’t see any activities or even publicity about it.
Around the same time last year, Google announced its Literacy Project with much fanfare. It turns out the google.com/literacy link is nothing more than a repackaged google web/video/map/book/Scholar searche engine.
Literacy. Everybody cares about it. Nobody pays attention.
