UNGA tackles the cost of unequal access to education for girls

UN General Assembly

Yasmeen Sami Alamiri

Palestinian schoolgirls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA-run school, on the first day of a new school year, in Gaza City August 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Published September 24, 2018 at 8:47 PM
Updated September 25, 2018 at 2:02 PM

Worldwide, 61 million children are out of primary school–53 percent of which are girls.

Girls are out of school “due to poverty, gender norms and lack of services and viable alternatives,” according to the U.N.