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Queen Rania Delivers Petition Signed by 18 Million People to UN Secretary General, Calling on World Leaders to Act on Education Crisis

Submitted by sadmin1 on Mon, 08/10/2015 - 21:27

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- New York) – Her Majesty Queen Rania joined 12 year old South African schoolgirl Nthabiseng Tshabalala in New York today to hand in an eighteen-million strong petition to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon.

The petition, presented as a chalkboard representing the millions of people that had signed up, demanded immediate action from world leaders to deliver education for more than 69 million children currently unable to go to school.

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