UNESCO & World Literacy

What is Literacy:

Literacy - the term referring to the basic resources of knowledge and skills necessary to participate in the social life of the human community. Required set of these resources depends on historical factors and socio-cultural. Subject competencies acquired throughout life of the individual and recognized in a given period as a fundamental, which is subject to the requirement of social and social control. This concerns both the characteristics acquired in non-formal education, as well as through the formal education system. Literacy refers not only to reading and writing skills, but also the basic knowledge of mathematical, geographical, biological, physical, technical and social skills as well as the use of the computer and the Internet.

Detailed Definition of Literacy:

The literacy is the action and effect of teaching reading and writing large masses of adults and educates them; is the action to teach people to read and write a region or community. In the final report of the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, organized by UNESCO, it was concluded, "the acquisition of knowledge and basic skills we all need in a rapidly changing world, and a is a free fundamental right of human beings. " The literacy is the ability to be literate. Often includes the ability to master basic operations of calculus and have minimal cultural notions to survive in the environment.  Many politicians consider the literacy rate (the percentage of a region that can read and write) as a crucial measure of human capital and access to new employment opportunities and development in society as well as the ability to produce wealth and social equality. For others, it serves, as an indicator of the culture of a country is another factor to take into account their level of development.

Literacy learning is often considered the first level of adult education courses and the first equivalent of primary education. Many countries have carried out literacy campaigns, usually in correlation with phenomena of profound social change: the reform in Germany, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, etc.. The foundations of literacy campaigns started worldwide in 1962 and some consider that basic education started in the nineteenth century.

Literacy in Meeting of General Assembly:

The UNESCO, the meeting of the general conference of November 1960, laying the foundations of a global literacy foundation, and the General Assembly of the UN in December 1961 asked that the agency responsible for it; their job is to coordinate the various activities and make the curriculum and to furnish advice, technical experts and clarifications to the states. There are big differences between the number of illiterates in developed countries and the "third world", and in these countries, there are big differences between men and women who are often have less access to education. According to UNESCO, it is estimated that in 2000 there were about 90 million illiterate people. The opacity data from certain governments do not support the detection and solution of the problem. The countries of the former Soviet bloc made greater efforts in this field.