High-Level Virtual Event to Mark the International Day to Protect Education from Attack

For the first time, the international community is preparing to celebrate 9 September as the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack. The aim of the high-level event is to commemorate and promote this important international day and a call to stop attacks on education. This commemoration comes in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Education has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic with – according to UNESCO data – at its peak 1.6 billion learners forced out of school, representing about 90% of world learners in more than 190 countries. Children and youth in under-resourced communities and in conflict zones remain among the most vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19, as many have been left without distance learning infrastructure and connectivity. COVID-19 has highlighted the structural inequalities that exist in education, and the urgency to address them.

Join Her Highness Sheika Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Education Above All Foundation and UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate,  António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the President of the 74th Session of the General Assembly, and Dr Howard Taylor, the Executive Director of the End Violence Partnership, to commemorate this important day.