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DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
16 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“The demand for education is the civil rights struggle of our generation. That unless we can find the way of preventing girls being subjected to child marriage when they should be at school, boys and girls being forced into child labour when they should be at school, trafficking and girls being denied rights simply because they are girls, then we are failing a full generation of young people.”
5. Wide shot, press room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“Of 1.6 billion children throughout the world, 200 million and more will not be at school at all despite our promise that everyone will be in school. And a total of 800 million – that’s half the children of the world – will not be receiving a good or decent education and will not leave school with anything like the skills that they need for the labour market of the future.”
7. Med shot, press
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“We will offer a plan, the first global education budget, which will list the cost and the benefits and the price of delivering universal education for all. We will say that this could make possible the biggest expansion of educational opportunity in history, and we will set out a timetable under which every child in the world will be in a position to develop their chances for education.”
9. Med shot, press
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“Inequality of opportunity in this world is greater than ever. We will spend on average about 100,000 dollars on the education of a child from 3 to 16 in the countries of the West. So 100,000 dollars to do the primary and secondary education including pre-school education of that child, and we will spend in some of the African countries – and I could name some of them – less than 400 dollars for the whole of the education of that child.”
11. Med shot, press
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education:
“Hope dies, not only when a convoy doesn’t get through to Aleppo, and hope dies not only when a life raft is sunk at sea as people are crossing the Mediterranean, hope dies when children cannot plan and prepare for the future and see no prospects in the life ahead and their parents don’t either. And that’s why I would say that if you want to slow the wave of movements into Europe the best and actually a welcome policy on the part the parents and children of refugees would be to do something to provide education in the region.”
13. Wide shot, end of presser
Ahead of the launch of the report of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown today (16 Sep) said “the demand for education is the civil rights struggle of our generation.”
Brown said that “unless we can find the way of preventing girls being subjected to child marriage when they should be at school, boys and girls being forced into child labour when they should be at school, trafficking and girls being denied rights simply because they are girls, then we are failing a full generation of young people.”
Citing findings from the report, the former UK Prime Minister said that by 2030 “of 1.6 billion children throughout the world, 200 million and more will not be at school at all despite our promise that everyone will be in school. And a total of 800 million – that’s half the children of the world – will not be receiving a good or decent education and will not leave school with anything like the skills that they need for the labour market of the future.”
He said that at the launch of the report, scheduled for Sunday (18 Sep), the first ever global education budget will be presented.
Brown said the budget will “list the cost and the benefits and the price of delivering universal education for all” and will “set out a timetable under which every child in the world will be in a position to develop their chances for education.”
Speaking about global inequality in accessing education, he said “about 100,000 dollars” will be spent on average educating a child from 3 to 16 in the countries of the West, while in some of the African countries “less than 400 dollars for the whole of the education of that child” will be spent.
Brown said “Hope dies, not only when a convoy doesn’t get through to Aleppo, and hope dies not only when a life raft is sunk at sea as people are crossing the Mediterranean, hope dies when children cannot plan and prepare for the future and see no prospects in the life ahead.”
The former Prime Minister was appointed as a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education, an unpaid position, in July 2012.
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