United Nations Special Envoy, Gordon Brown, has warned that an impending global education crisis with wide and persistent divide could exclude 400 million girls from employment by 2030.

He made this known in a statement by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, Education Commission, where youth activists worldwide recently met in New York with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss education funding.

Brown said, “The human faces behind these statistics are the most heartbreaking. In Nigeria, girls living in poverty bear the greatest burden. Many of them drop out of school and get married early. They are left without skills for the modern economy and won’t have much hope for the future.”

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