Kailash
Satyarthi, Chair, Global March Against
Child Labour and President, Global Campaign
for Education was the only civil society
representative keynote speaker to address
the UNESCO General Conference Ministerial
Round Table on Education for All at
UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
More
than 50 education ministers and high-ranking
officials responsible for education
meet during UNESCO's General Conference
in Paris (7-8 October 2005) to explore
practical ways to address Education
for All (EFA) challenges by building
on positive examples from different
parts of the world.
Satyarthi
in his keynote address emphasised on
genuine and transparent participation
of the civil society in planning, implementation
and monitoring of the EFA goals. Further,
highlighting the changing role of NGOs
today, he said that NGOs have moved
from the service delivery mode to critical
policy dialogue and have also taken
up the garb of social watchdogs.
He
also demanded the active participation
of children and youth in the education
campaigns.
Read
Full Text of Kailash Satyarthi’s
speech:
http://www.unesco.org/education/mined2005/satyarthi.rtf
To
view the current live webcast from UNESCO:
mms://stream.unesco.org/vod/gc_081005_1_hd_en.wmv
