International Literacy Day celebrated through theme “Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace”

Posted: Friday, September 6, 2024. 10:02 am CST.

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Today is recognized globally as International Literacy Day.

International Literacy Day was established in 1967 and recognized annually on September 8 to remind policy-makers, practitioners, and the public of the critical importance of literacy for creating a more literate, just, peaceful, and sustainable society.

International Literacy Day is being celebrated under the theme of “Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace”.

Literacy is a fundamental human right for all. It opens the door to the enjoyment of other human rights, greater freedoms, and global citizenship.

UNESCO reminds that literacy is a foundation for people to acquire broader knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviours to foster a culture of lasting peace based on respect for equality and non-discrimination, the rule of law, solidarity, justice, diversity, and tolerance and to build harmonious relations with oneself, other people and the planet.

In 2022, however, at least one out of seven adults aged 15 and above (754 million) lacked basic literacy skills.

Additionally, millions of children are struggling to acquire minimum levels of proficiency in reading, writing and numeracy, while some 250 million children of 6-18 years old are out of school.

In today’s world, in which multilingualism is a common practice for many, empowering people by adopting a first language-based, multilingual approach to literacy development and education is particularly effective for its cognitive, pedagogical, and socio-economic benefits.

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