UN Secretary-General António Guterres call on the global community to say with one voice that “attacks on schools must stop’’ and that schools be safe for schooling.
Guterres made the call at a virtual event to commemorate the International Day to Protect Education from Attack globally celebrated on September 9.
The top UN official encouraged the participants to imagine being a child in a classroom eager to learn, or a teacher dedicated to shaping the minds of the next generation.
The secretary-general cited the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack.
In another development, the UN General Assembly said it fulfilled its mandate for the session by adopting more than 320 resolutions during the 75th session amid the COVID-19.
It added that it succeeded in conducting 103 formal plenary meetings in a similar health situation.
President of the assembly Volkan Bozkir disclosed this in New York at a final press conference where he discussed the top job and steering the agenda of the world body amid an extraordinary year, dominated by COVID-19.
