September 8, 2016
"Education for global citizenship 'is an essential strategy to address global challenges as well as to promote gender equality, facilitate the eradication of poverty and hunger, build skills, eliminate corruption, and prevent violence, including violent extremism.'"
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goal statement, cited in Global citizenship and education key to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals, sisters say, published on Global Sisters Report
September 8 isUNESCO's International Literacy Day.