Every year, 12 million girls are married before they turn 18. That’s 28 girls every minute.
“We cannot afford to lose girls’ potential in adolescence,” says Neema Lugangira at Women Political Leaders.
Read the first in our #IWD2026 series on the @unwomen.bsky.social theme of Rights. Justice. Action.
👉 go.ipned.org/0bauco
Watch out for the next op-ed on Friday 13 by Naheed Farid 🇦🇫
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association just released a new strategy focusing on #SustainableDevelopment.
Parliaments have a unique role to play in achieving #SDG4 and other development goals.
Find out more about @cpa-secretariat.bsky.social plans 👇 go.ipned.org/63hbeb
We've just published the latest briefs in our series on the world's forgotten #education crises, highlighting trends and how you can support local actors:
➡️ Sudan eiehub.org/country-brie...
➡️ Venezuela eiehub.org/country-brie...
Access all briefs here: eiehub.org/country-briefs
Education is a life-saving intervention in emergencies. The education actors working in and for Sudan are calling for education to be prioritised in emergency responses. Help us amplify their calls!
Learn more: ➡️ inee.org/crisis-spotlight/sudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Protecting #GirlsEducation & preventing early marriage make women’s leadership possible.
Ahead of #IWD2026, Neema Lugangira, SG at Women Political Leaders, calls to prioritise girls’ secondary education as a pathway to end early marriage.
Read more: go.ipned.org/0bauco @girlsnotbrides.bsky.social
South Africa’s Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube MP, delivers the keynote address at the 2030 Reading Panel Conference.
A new Reading Panel 2030 report shows that only 30% of 6-9 year olds in South Africa are reading at grade level in their home language.
Find out more here: go.ipned.org/3mhegf
#EnsureEveryChildLearns #FoundationalLearning
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The IPNEd monthly education newsletter has just gone out to subscribers.
In this edition:
- MPs call for international cooperation
- IPNEd statement on Iran
- the impact of aid cuts
- how Zambia leads for learning
- #IWD2026
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IPNEd is deeply alarmed by the impact of the military escalation in the Middle East on educational institutions, students, and education personnel.
Read our full statement: go.ipned.org/k7qgtu
#EducationUnderAttack #ProtectEducationFromAttack #NotATarget #SafeSchools #ProtectEducation #Iran
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📢 NEW MEMBER
We are delighted to announce that Catherine Fife, @waterloompp.bsky.social in Ontario, Canada, has joined @ipned.bsky.social.
Ms Fife MPP is Chair of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians network.
Thank you for your #PoliticalLeadershipForEducation and welcome to the Network!
The education actors from Sudan call for increased funding and sustained support to restore and protect education.
Join us in amplifying their voices! Learn more
➡️ inee.org/crisis-spotlight/sudan
#IWD2026 is just a week away. But for women and girls in Afghanistan, education has been out of reach for 1624 days and counting.
Read our interview with MP in exile @mariamistan.bsky.social on Afghan girls' right to education 👇
go.ipned.org/izf7x6
“We hope that a suitable environment will be provided so that education can continue smoothly.”
Watch more videos from Sudanese students and educators ➡️https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxBcV0Ya4haaiv-z8Dep8qDzOX4azaN4
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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📢 NEW MEMBER
We are delighted to announce that Egyptian Senator Amira Saber has joined @ipned.bsky.social. Senator Saber is also Presiding Officer of the World Bank Group's Global Young MP Initiative.
Thank you for your #PoliticalLeadershipForEducation and welcome to the Network!
One year since the UK government announced cuts to aid spending, our Director of Advocacy and Communications, Neil Thorns, was interviewed by Vatican News about the decision.
He spoke about how these cuts create instability and increased gender inequality. Read more. ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4tTWJV5
Solidarity is essential. Delivering the financing required to provide a quality education for all will only be achieved through strong and sustained international cooperation. It requires action on tax, debt and a commitment to more and better development and humanitarian assistance.
Support our MP-led call to action on renewing international cooperation and share it with lawmakers in your country.
👉 go.ipned.org/5adyzd 👈
#CooperationForEducation #FundEducation #SDG4 #PoliticalLeadershipForEducation
Humanitarian assistance. 127 million children in countries affected by war and displacement are out of school. Cuts in humanitarian assistance are leaving children without life-saving services and robbing them of the chance to go to school. Governments must affirm their commitments to education in communities affected by conflict and crises, including by funding Education Cannot Wait, the global fund for education in emergencies.
Millions of children risk missing out on education due to conflict, disasters and displacement.
Humanitarian assistance is essential, and funding @educannotwait.bsky.social is critical, to avoiding that risk.
#CooperationForEducation #FundEducation #SDG4 #PoliticalLeadershipForEducation
Education aid. External support for education is a lifeline for the world's poorest countries, like Gambia and the Central African Republic, where aid accounts for up to half of all public spending on education. Already hard-hit by cuts, aid to education is projected to fall by a quarter between now and 2027. Donor governments must reverse aid cuts, grow their support for education, and ensure that the Global Partnership for Education is fully funded. Up to 24% - how much education aid is set to fall in the next year.
Education aid provides vital assistance to the poorest countries.
Aid cuts could halve education spending in low-income countries like Liberia and Chad. We must reverse cuts, renew solidarity, and #FundEducation.
@gpforeducation.bsky.social #CooperationForEducation #MultiplyPossibility
Debt. 54 countries are in debt crisis. Over 50% of all low and lower middle income countries spend more on debt servicing than on education. A UN framework convention on debt that establishes binding principles for responsible borrowing and lending, and develops fairer processes for debt restructuring, would be transformative. It could unleash hundreds of billions of dollars for investment in education.
More than half of all low and lower-middle income countries spend more on debt servicing than on education.
A new @ungeneva.bsky.social convention on debt could be transformative—unleashing hundreds of billions of dollars for investment in education.
#DebtJustice
Taxation. Global tax rules currently fail to stop, and sometimes even encourage, tax injustice. The UN tax convention will help countries to increase tax revenue rapidly and progressively. It is under negotiation now. The convention has the potential to become a trillion-dollar treaty that can crack down on tax havens and boost public financing for education.
Global tax rules currently fail to stop, and sometimes even encourage, tax injustice.
A @ungeneva.bsky.social #TaxConvention could become a trillion-dollar treaty that cracks down on tax havens and boosts public financing for education.
#CooperationForEducation
The education funding gap. A chronic lack of financing for education is a major barrier to progress. Low and lower middle income countries face an annual financing gap of at least $97 billion to achieve their targets. In the poorest countries, half of the cost to meet national education targets remains unmet.
Investment in education remains insufficient, with a funding gap of $97 billion annually.
Closing the financing gap requires international action to change global rules on critical issues such as tax and debt, along with more and better aid.
International cooperation is critical to removing the roadblocks to more and better domestic and international funding for education.
Rising debt, declining investment, shrinking aid and escalating trade tensions: education financing faces unprecedented headwinds.
International cooperation is critical to closing the education funding gap. A thread👇
In this time of great uncertainty, @PGAction is calling on legislators worldwide to defend democracy, champion cooperation, and prioritize dialogue.
Three commitments. One campaign. Are you ready to lead?
Join us. #MPsShapeTheFuture
https://f.mtr.cool/zlagrxpfnv
Writing for Comment Central #IPNEd member &
@houseofcommons.parliament.uk International Development Committee Chair, Sarah Champion MP says "parliamentarians need to make defending IHL a political priority".
#CooperationForEducation
Read more 👉 commentcentral.co.uk/the-world-is...
They're "the greatest resource in early childhood education".
Find out how parents are the key to @gpforeducation.bsky.social and Lively Minds' work to improve early childhood education levels in Ghana and Uganda 👇
www.globalpartnership.org/blog/who-are...
Education is a pivotal gate to better health, equality, democracy and a more sustainable living on this planet. It is a must to lawmakers in any society to empower the next generations through education. Sascha Faxe MP, Foreign Affairs & Development Spokesperson, The Alternative, Denmark.
MP @saschafaxe.bsky.social from Denmark’s @folketinget.dk & The Alternative’s spokesperson for Foreign Affairs & Development has signed the @ipned.bsky.social call to action on #CooperationForEducation.
Find out more about the campaign and add your name here 👉 go.ipned.org/5adyzd
Sustained advocacy from a wide range of actors can turn political commitment into action.
We joined partners in Kenya to create a shared vision for advocacy to #EnsureEveryChildLearns.
Find out more about the FLN Hub convening 👇 go.ipned.org/gni6jc
On #MotherLanguageDay tomorrow, we'll be thinking about the power of publishing books in every language to #EnsureEveryChildLearns.
Check out our 2025 blogpost on creating more local language books, plus how MPs can help drive this forward.
📚 go.ipned.org/mjmu6u
On this #WorldDayOfSocialJustice, we reflect on unequal access to education and the responsibility of states to guarantee it for all. 🌍
Ten years into the Public Education and Human Rights Coalition's journey, there are reasons for optimism. 🌱
“The most dangerous thing facing Sudan today is the disruption of education. When education collapses, we don't just lose knowledge, but we lose the human being himself.”
Watch more videos from Sudanese students & educators ➡️https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxBcV0Ya4haaiv-z8Dep8qDzOX4azaN4
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📢 NEW MEMBER
We are delighted to announce that Ahmed Alaa Fayed, member of the House of Representatives in Egypt, has joined
@ipned.bsky.social.
Thank you for your #PoliticalLeadershipForEducation and welcome to the Network!
