Despite attempts by the international community to achieve primary school education for all children, the target has yet to be reached. Although there has been progress in some countries, the initial targets, set first for 2000 and then for 2015, were both missed. The current target, part of the UN’s sustainable development goals, is to achieve primary education for all children by 2030. However, Unesco, the UN agency that monitors access to education, has already warned that on current levels of progress this target is also unlikely to be met.
The sheer number of children missing out on even a basic education is staggering. Unesco’s ‘Global education monitoring report 2017–18’ found that across the world, 264 million children were not receiving education, and the majority of these were girls. Three countries alone each had more than a million girls not in school: Nigeria (almost 5.5 million), Pakistan (over 3 million) and Ethiopia (over 1 million). In Afghanistan, over 60% of girls are not in education.
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