“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.” — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression,… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty,… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
