Arab League warns of 30 percent illiteracy rate in Arab world
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Arab League's educational arm urged its member countries Tuesday to get serious about fighting illiteracy, citing a report that showed nearly one in three people in the Arab world cannot read.
The Tunis-based Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization said numerous efforts to reduce the illiteracy rate across the 21-country region still had not done enough.
The group cited a UN Development Program report showing nearly 100 million people of the 335 million in the Arab world were illiterate. Three-fourths of them were aged 15 to 45, and nearly half were women.
It shows a "deep structural gap that curbs the evolution of Arab society and has very grave political, social and economic consequences," ALECSO said in a statement, timed for a literacy day in Arab countries.
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