Gordon Brown served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 and as a Member of Parliament in his home county of Fife, Scotland, from 1983 to 2015.
He is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and is a passionate advocate for the rights of children and believes every girl and boy deserves the opportunity of an education, learning and skills for the future. Since September 2021, he also serves as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing.
Gordon is Chair of the High-Level Steering Group of Education Cannot Wait, the education in emergencies fund; Chair of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict; and serves as Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity.
We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With more than one billion children still out of school because of the lockdown, there ...
La tan repetida idea de que la COVID‑19 es «el gran igualador» es un mito. No hay igualdad de sufrimiento o sacrificio durante una pandemia que afecta sobre todo a las personas más pobres...
The oft-repeated idea that COVID-19 is “the great equalizer” is a myth. There is no equality of suffering or equality of sacrifice during a pandemic that is disproportionately hurting the...
ADDIS-ABEBA/LONDRES – L'idée rebattue selon laquelle la COVID-19 est un « grand égalisateur » est un mythe. Il n'y a pas d'égalité dans la souffrance ni d'égalité face au sacrifice lors d...
Es urgente que los líderes del G20 vuelvan a reunirse para acordar una respuesta mundial mayor y mejor coordinada ante la crisis de la COVID-19. Aunque en muchos sitios se están reduciend...
G20 leaders urgently need to reconvene to agree on an enhanced and more strongly coordinated global response to the COVID-19 crisis. Although lockdowns are being eased in many places, the...
Continuous declines in international education aid are depriving half of all young people in the developing world – some 800 million children – of the education they will need to secure m...
Great feats of human ingenuity and social progress do not happen through half-measures. If the international community is going to meet its commitment to provide a quality education to al...
Long-term educational and employment needs have historically been severely undervalued in humanitarian planning. But, as much as refugees need proper food, shelter, and health care today,...
The recent March for Our Lives in the United States inspired millions not just across America, but also around the world. Until the nationwide demonstrations on March 24, most people thou...
The Sustainable Development Goals, the subject of this week’s World Economic Forum meeting in New York, cannot be met unless we address the fate of the world’s 20 million refugees and 60 ...
好的创意总是不多也总是很难达到。进步通常一点一点地累积。但是有时候一个伟大的想法，即使是非常审慎地提出的，也能彻底改变我们对可能的认识。
Big ideas are few and far between. Progress usually occurs incrementally, bit by bit. But sometimes a big idea – even one that starts modestly – can thoroughly transform our view of what ...
From Fawaz’s home in a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Syria, where he lives with his now-displaced family, one danger has been traded for another. “There are no school...
In a confrontational world where protectionism is on the rise, multilateralism has become an easy target for criticism. But those who doubt its value must have short memories. They seem t...
