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STORY: UN / OPENING COMMISSION POPULATION DEVELOPMENT
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DATELINE: 10 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
10 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Despite many promises and some advances, there are 263 million children and youth out of school – 60 percent of them between the ages of 15 and 17, a critical age for preparing young people for adulthood. It is just as concerning that many of those in school are not learning – nearly 70 percent of children in poorer countries are unable to understand a basic text by age 10, many due to the effects of poverty and malnutrition.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Of the 8 billion people on our planet, two-thirds live in a place with below-replacement level fertility (around 2 children per woman), while a smaller number of countries are still growing vigorously. Some countries have a median age of around 50, others around 15. And countries with the highest fertility rates contribute the least to global warming yet suffer the most from its impact.”
6. Med shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“Even where school enrolments have expanded, too many children remain shut out, unable to read, write or calculate. Teachers are too few, too overstretched, and undertrained in modern teaching methods. The fact is women constitute two-thirds of the 770 million adults who can’t read and write. They need deeper, local investments to lift them out of that predicament.”
8. Med shot, meeting room
The 56th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development is happening this week in New York to discuss the theme “Population, education and sustainable development.”
Speaking at the opening of the Session today (10 Apr) in New York, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, said, “Despite many promises and some advances, there are 263 million children and youth out of school – 60 percent of them between the ages of 15 and 17, a critical age for preparing young people for adulthood.”
She continued, “It is just as concerning that many of those in school are not learning – nearly 70 percent of children in poorer countries are unable to understand a basic text by age 10, many due to the effects of poverty and malnutrition.”
Mohammed also said, “Of the 8 billion people on our planet, two-thirds live in a place with below-replacement level fertility (around 2 children per woman), while a smaller number of countries are still growing vigorously.”
She noted, “Some countries have a median age of around 50, others around 15.”
According to her, “countries with the highest fertility rates contribute the least to global warming yet suffer the most from its impact.”
The Head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Natalia Kanem, said, “Even where school enrolments have expanded, too many children remain shut out, unable to read, write or calculate. Teachers are too few, too overstretched, and undertrained in modern teaching methods.”
She continued, “The fact is women constitute two-thirds of the 770 million adults who can’t read and write.”
Kanem concluded, “They need deeper, local investments to lift them out of that predicament.”
The Commission is composed of 47 Member States elected by the Economic and Social Council for a period of four years on the basis of geographic distribution.
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