The DG and First Ladies

Laura Bush and other First Ladies with Mr Matsuura
© White House/Chris Greenberg

UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura attended the Global Campaign for Education event in New York this week, where the new coalition was launched to galvanize action towards achieving the Education for All Goals by the target date of 2015.

$4.5 Billion New Pledges for Education at UN Summit

According to Agence France Press, UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced yesterday that 4.5 billion dollars' worth of new pledges and commitments were made at the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals to get 24 million children into school by 2010, as a milestone toward universal primary education by 2015.