UN calls for faster progress on SDG 4

GPE media coverage - June 30, 2017 | Source: Foreign Affairs

A boy writing at the blackboard in his classroom in DRC. Credit: GPE

On 28 June 2017, the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) convened a High-Level SDG Action Event on Education in order to push global efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 (quality education).

The event took place in New York, US on the eve of a meeting of the SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee.

Read the full article on Foreign Affairs.

Focus areas: SDG 4

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