Illiteracy is a global social problem, which seriously hinders social development. In order to eliminate illiteracy, as early as 1966, UNESCO decided to designate September 8th of each year as the International Literacy Day, with the aim of mobilizing all countries and relevant international institutions to jointly literacy, hoping to promote literacy through the activities of the International Literacy Day, so that school-age children in all countries can go to school, students in school will not drop out of school prematurely, and illiterate adults will also have the opportunity to receive education.
3. In order to promote worldwide literacy, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in 1987, declaring 1990 as the International Literacy Year. The United Nations has also declared the decade starting from 5438+0 in June 2003 as the International Literacy Decade, striving to achieve the goal of reducing the total number of illiterate adults in the world by half compared with 2000 by 20 15.