Media Coverage Release of the Gender Summary of the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2013/14 March 2014 Media in all regions of the world published stories on the Gender Summary of the EFA GMR released at a special event in New York on 10 March, 2014. The event was hosted in collaboration with the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI). The press release on this report did especially well in Latin America, including Brazil, as well as in Spain, Portugal and Hungary. However stories were also published in Greece, Italy, in several Arab countries and a few regional news outlets in the United States. The number of articles published exceeded 450 Number of countries: 25 Highlights: • United States: The Daily Beast - Malala’s Schoolteacher on Pakistan’s School Conditions (8 March, 2014): http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2014/03/08/malala-sschoolteacher-on-pakistan-s-school-conditions.html • United Kingdom: The Huffington Post - (Op Ed) Let's Make Education a Reality for Every Girl and Woman (10 March, 2014): http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pauline-rose/womeneducation_b_4931079.html • India: The Times of India – India Needs Another 56 Years to Achieve Female Youth Literacy • Africa: All Africa.com - 100 Million Young Women Unable to Read a Single Sentence (10 March, 2014): http://allafrica.com/stories/201403102108.html • Lebanon: The Daily Star - Arab world failing women in gender equality, education (10 March, 2014): http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Mar-10/249764-arab-worldfailing-women-in-gender-equality-education.ashx#axzz2vXvk7dVy A selection of stories published by media for the release of the Gender Summary of the EFA GMR 2013/4 The Daily Beast - Malala’s Schoolteacher on Pakistan’s School Conditions (8 March, 2014): http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2014/03/08/malala-s-schoolteacher-on-pakistan-s-schoolconditions.html Huffington Post - (Op Ed) Let's Make Education a Reality for Every Girl and Woman (10 March, 2014): http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pauline-rose/women-education_b_4931079.html Independent European Daily Express: (12 March, 2014) http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2014_4151/unesco-gender-imbalance-global-education Midi Libre - Plus de 100 millions de jeunes femmes ne savent pas lire (10 March ,2014): http://www.lemidi-dz.com/index.php?operation=voir_article&date_article=2014-0312&id_article=la_24@art4@2014-03-12 Hello Cotton.com (france) - 100 millions de jeunes femmes analphabètes (10 March, 2014) : http://www.hellocoton.fr/10-03-2014-100-millions-de-jeunes-femmes-analphabetes-11657478 Times of India – India Needs Another 56 Years to Achieve Female Youth Literacy (10 March 2014) Daily Star- Lebanon- Arab world failing women in gender equality, education (10 March,2014): http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Mar-10/249764-arab-world-failing-women-ingender-equality-education.ashx#axzz2vXvk7dVy Algerian online - وكسنويلا: نم رثكأ10 ( ةدحاو ةلمج ةءارق عيطتست ال ملاعلا يف ةاتف نييالم10 March, 2014) http://www.djazairess.com/echorouk/197735 All Africa.com - 100 Million Young Women Unable to Read a Single Sentence (10 March,2014): http://allafrica.com/stories/201403102108.html Africa Review 100m young women 'unable to read a single sentence' (10 March, 2014): http://www.africareview.com/Opinion/100m-young-women-unable-to-read-a-single-sentence-UN//979188/2238196/-/jt8r3d/-/index.html Journal de Brazza online -100 millions de jeunes femmes sont incapables de lire une phrase, selon l'UNESCO (10 March, 2014): http://www.journaldebrazza.com/article.php?aid=4317 Ethiopian Standard - 100 million young women unable to read a single sentence (10 March, 2014): http://addisstandard.com/unesco-100-million-young-women-unable-to-read-a-single-sentence/ Daily Times – Nigeria - 100 Million Girls, Women Worldwide Can’t Read Single Sentence-UNESCO (10 March,2014): http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/100-million-girls-women-worldwidecan%E2%80%99t-read-single-sentence-unesco Modern Ghana -New global education goals must prioritize girls ...100 million young women unable to read a single sentence, concludes UNESCO report (10 March, 2014) : http://www.modernghana.com/news/527982/1/newglobal-education-goals-must-prioritize-girls.html Korean Newswire - 국제 대학 여성 협회(IFUW), 세계여성의 날 ‘Post -2015 의제’에서 여성의 중등교육, 식자력 및 수리력을 위한 단일 목표 설정을 모든 국가에 촉구 (10 March, 2014) : http://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=741072&ected= MSN Latino -Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (March 11, 2014) : http://noticias.latino.msn.com/eeuu/cien-millones-de-mujeres-j%C3%B3venes-son-a%C3%BAnincapaces-de-leer-seg%C3%BAn-la-unesco-5 Telemundo Atlanta - Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (March 10, 2014): http://www.telemundoatlanta.com/1829_nacional/2449353_cien-millones-de-mujeres-jovenes-son-aunincapaces-de-leer-segun-la-unesco.html Globovision -100 millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (10 March, 2014): http://globovision.com/articulo/100-millones-de-mujeres-jovenes-son-aun-incapaces-de-leer-segun-launesco Fox News Latino - Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (10 March, 2014) : http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/espanol/2014/03/10/cien-millones-de-mujeres-jovenes-son-aunincapaces-de-leer-segun-la-unesco/ El Nacionel- Unesco: Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer (March 10, 2014) :http://www.el-nacional.com/sociedad/Unesco-Cien-millones-mujeres-incapaces_0_370163064.html Terra USA - Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (March 10, 2014): http://noticias.terra.com/eeuu/cien-millones-de-mujeres-jovenes-son-aun-incapaces-de-leersegun-la-unesco,b21ba489f1ca4410VgnCLD2000000dc6eb0aRCRD.html Boliviaentusmanos - Cien millones de mujeres jóvenes son aún incapaces de leer, según la Unesco (10 March, 2014): http://www.boliviaentusmanos.com/noticias/internacional/97950/cien-millones-demujeres-jovenes-son-aun-incapaces-de-leer-segun-la-unesco.html [ENDS]