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What is literacy day? What does literacy day mean?
1, "Literacy Day" means International Literacy Day. International Literacy Day was established by UNESCO in June 2007 at 5438+0965+065438+1October 14. The date is September 8th every year, aiming at mobilizing all countries in the world and relevant international institutions to pay attention to and eliminate illiteracy, promoting universal primary education in all countries of the world, improving the level of primary education, enabling all school-age children to go to school and achieving the goal of literacy. Finally, it can promote interpersonal communication, eliminate discrimination and promote cultural exchange and social development.

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.