For fifty years, International Literacy Day hascelebrated literacy as an empowering force forwomen and men and for society as a whole.

　　五十年來，國際掃盲日活動大力宣傳掃盲工作，強調(diào)掃盲是增強女性、男性以及整個社會權(quán)能的重要力量。

　　We have seen great progress since theproclamation of International Literacy Day byUNESCO in 1966. The world's population hasincreased substantially, but the number of youngadults without literacy skills decreased by 25 percent between 1990 and 2015. There has beenmovement in enhancing women's opportunities to acquire literacy – 43 countries have shownmajor improvements in gender parity. The global Education for All movement spearheadedmuch positive change.

　　自從1966年教科文組織宣布國際掃盲日以來，我們已經(jīng)取得了長足的進步。雖然世界人口大幅增長，但青年文盲的數(shù)量在1990至2015年期間減少了25%。各國掀起運動，為婦女提供更多習(xí)得讀寫技能的機會——有43個國家

　　But not enough. There remain today 758 million adults who cannot read or write a simplesentence. Two thirds of them are women. On the side-lines of the global village, they receivenone of the benefits of globalization and suffer all its costs. These women and men are morevulnerable to ill heath, exploitation and human rights abuse. They are more likely to beunemployed and paid less. Unable to read or write, they are held back from their full potential, and whole communities are locked into vicious cycles of poverty that lay the conditions forviolence and strife.

　　在性別均等方面取得了明顯改善。全球范圍內(nèi)的全民教育運動引領(lǐng)了巨大的積極變化。 但這還不夠。今天仍有7.58億成年人不會讀寫簡單的句子，其中有三分之二是女性。他們處于地球村的邊緣，不僅沒有從全球化進程中獲益，反而為此付出了代價。這些女性和男性更容易遭受疾病、剝削和侵犯人權(quán)行為的傷害。他們更有可能失業(yè)或收入較低。由于不會讀寫，他們無法充分實現(xiàn)自己的潛能，整個社區(qū)也受困于助長暴力和沖突的貧窮的惡性循環(huán)。