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<h3 class="Style1">Launch of the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report </h3>
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<div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;"><b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;">Reaching the marginalized</b></p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;">Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftershock of the global economic downturn.</p><p class="bodytext"
style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;">The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, released on 19 January, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right to education.</p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;">The Report examines who these children are and why they are being left behind, and shows that the cost of providing Education for All is much higher than previously estimated.</p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;
margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;">The report looks at concrete solutions for making sure that no children are excluded from schooling.</p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;"><br></p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top:0em;margin-right:0em;margin-bottom:0.75em;margin-left:0em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3px;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;">The report is available at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:normal;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.unesco.org/en/efareport/reports/2010-marginalization/">http://www.unesco.org/en/efareport/reports/2010-marginalization/</a></span></span></p></span></div>
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