Invest in quality edn, not weapons: Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the world community to invest in quality education by diverting billions of dollars spent for creating war machines and violence. ‘We must divert billions we spend for creating war machines and violence to educating our progeny for the ‘world we want’. Let us all invest in quality education for a culture of peace and non-violence,’ the Prime Minister said while addressing a high-level event on the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) at Trusteeship Council at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday afternoon. As Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki drew attention to the GEFI leaders that tens of thousands of children cannot go to schools in Gaza Strip of Palestine due to Israeli atrocities, Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina said the situation at Gaza has not been acceptable. ‘All should raise voice against what is happening in Gaza,’ she said. Hasina said the MDGs helped Bangladesh champion access to education and, gender parity. ‘In the post-2015 era, our priority must be quality education,’ she added, according to a news agency.