Investing in girls’ education globally delivers huge returns for economic growth, political participation, women’s health, smaller and more sustainable families, and disease prevention, concludes a new report from the Council’s Center for Universal Education.

This report states that in the face of rapid and exponential urbanization, Latin American countries must now begin to focus on a variety of social issues. For example, while national economies are indeed growing, there are still great disparities in in-come and wealth; and though few countries can now be considered authoritarian, many still have not implemented all the changes at all levels of society which are necessary to become truly democratic.

The Protocol to the Convention Against Discrimination in Education was adopted on December 18, 1962 and entered into force on October 24, 1968.

The Convention Against Discrimination in Education was adopted at UNESCO’s conference on December 14, 1960 and entered into force on May 22, 1962.