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Education <strong>for</strong> All Global Monitoring Report<br />

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Chapter 5<br />

Why <strong>literacy</strong><br />

matters<br />

This chapter explores the case <strong>for</strong> <strong>literacy</strong>,<br />

especially <strong>for</strong> youth and adults. It summarizes<br />

the foundations of the right to <strong>literacy</strong><br />

through a review of international agreements,<br />

noting that <strong>literacy</strong> is both a right in itself<br />

and an instrument <strong>for</strong> achieving other rights.<br />

The chapter then reviews the broa<strong>de</strong>r<br />

benefits that result from <strong>literacy</strong>, in human,<br />

economic, social and cultural terms. Since<br />

<strong>literacy</strong> is a key outcome of education, it is<br />

difficult to separate the right to <strong>literacy</strong> from<br />

the right to education or the benefits of<br />

<strong>literacy</strong> from those of education.<br />

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