Global Campaign for Education 2010

The global financial crisis has forced poor countries to cut their education budgets by $4.6 billion a year at a time when intensified efforts are needed to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of ensuring a primary school education for every child in the world by 2015, it said.
The report was produced by Education International, Plan International, Oxfam, Save the Children and VSO.
"Education is now on the brink," Kailash Satyarthi, president of the Global Campaign for Education which issued the report, told a high-level event in New York on the sidelines of a U.N. summit to promote achievement of the goal. Read more at  http://www.campaignforeducation.org/ and  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ8k1oFDuzFlN6M2UDGT0n3mBLigD9IBTG0O1

I had met Kailash Satyarthi about 20 years back - he was fighting for the rights of children in the Carpet weaving industry and did manage to bring about some positive changes and get legislations passed so that children could not be employed in this industry - on the whole a very inspiring morning.