To be, or not to be

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned on Tuesday that the COVID-2019 pandemic caused the worst crisis of education in history and said that getting students safely back to the classroom must be “a top priority”. Over 160 countries have closed schools, pushing more than 1 billion students out of the classroom, while at least 40 million children have missed out on pre-school. “Even before the pandemic, the world was facing a learning crisis”, Guterres said, but “Now we face a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities”.

Fate Is the Hunter

• Julian Borger, UN chief decries discriminatory border bans in rebuke to Trump travel decree, The Guardian, February 1, 2017

António Guterres, the new UN secretary general said on Wednesday, in a clear response to the Trump administration’s refugee ban, that border policies based on religion, ethnicity or race were “against the fundamental principles and values on which our societies are based”. [Read more].

Demonstrators gather outside Downing Street, London to protest Donald Trump's controversial travel ban. Photo credit: Wheatley/WENN Image.