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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is backing the urgent call from leaders of the Education For All (EFA) movement to dramatically accelerate measures to help 65 million girls currently denied an education.

Girls continue to suffer from discrimination in access to schooling in most developing countries, according to a report issued today by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Some 123 million children are being left out as classrooms around the world open their doors for the start of the new school year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.

Heading to Burkina Faso to launch an initiative to give more young females in West and Central Africa access to a quality education, the chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called on leaders to focus "as a matter of extreme urgency" on schooling girls.

The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a national initiative to boost girls’ education in Pakistan today, warning that until girls’ education became an urgent priority in South Asia, the region’s economic and social development would be hindered.

Girls make up more than half of the eight million children of primary school age in 19 Arab countries who remain out of school, although when given the chance to gain an education, they tend to repeat less than boys and complete their schooling more often, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new survey released today.

In solidarity with people from more than 100 countries who attempted to break the world record for the largest simultaneous educational lesson, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said educating girls is the most effective tool for development.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in conjunction with a leading pan-European children's entertainment company, today launched an online campaign to collect pledges in support of the UN agency's drive to get more girls into school.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced the launch of a new campaign to get girls into school in 25 priority countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

While 83 countries are on track to achieve universal education by 2015, a key goal set at a forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, nearly an equal number will not make the target, with some even going backwards, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today in a new report.