It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies i…

- Koichiro Matsuura

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic socie…

- Koichiro Matsuura

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out…

- Koichiro Matsuura

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international communit…

- Koichiro Matsuura

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

- Koichiro Matsuura

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

- Koichiro Matsuura

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

- Koichiro Matsuura