Girls' Education: The Biggest Lesson in History
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a worldwide coalition of NGOs and teachers' unions, operating in more than 150 countries, united in their determination to make the right to education a reality. We believe that:

The single most important lesson of the past century is that education wipes out poverty and nourishes democracy. Educating girls and women is especially crucial: it leads directly to better family health, economic growth, and lower rates of child mortality and malnutrition.

The single biggest mistake of our time has been to deny women and girls the right to read and write - the means to build a better life. As we start the 21st century, 70 million girls are still out of school and 550 million women - nearly one in every five - are illiterate. How much longer will we allow this to go on?

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