Gordon Brown, a United Nations Special Envoy for Global
Education has renewed calls for the release of the over 234 female
students that were kidnapped on April 14 from GGSS, Chibok Borno State,
by Boko Haram sect members.
Gordon Brown
Brown, who made the call on Monday in massage to commemorate the
Day of the African Child at the UN in New York, urged the world to
remember the abducted schoolgirls during the celebration, and commended
youths around the world for demanding education for all.
Speaking at the event tagged: "A child friendly, quality, free and
compulsory education for all children in Africa" Brown said: “Thousands
of people have come together united with one cause: Safe schools for
every girl and boy. While the global community has failed to deliver
safe schooling, young people are demanding safe, quality schools for all
children everywhere, and they are standing in solidarity with the
northern Nigerian girls of Chibok, and all those around the world who
face these struggles”.
Meanwhile, the United Nations again stressed the need for a
combined effort in fighting terrorism in North-East, and also reiterated
its support for ongoing efforts by the Nigerian government to secure
the schoolgirls’ safe release.
The Day of the African Child celebration is slated for June 16 of
every year in honour of the school children that were massacred in 1976
during a demonstration in Soweto, South Africa. The children were
demanding to be taught in their own language as well as a change in the
poor education that was being offered by the apartheid regime.
The African Union (AU) chooses the Day in 1991, and urged that
events should to be organised around the world to promote children’s
rights. An assembly of young people converged at Union’s headquarter
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday to deliver a call of action about
education to world leaders.
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