Before the G8 and G20 summits in Canada, student organisations from both across the world called on the world leaders to make higher education accessible to all, as agreed in the United Nations Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights.
Student organisations representing more than 150 million students signed a statement to the G8/G20 leaders. You can read the full statement in English, French or Spanish.

The statement calls on the leaders of the G8 and G20 to:

• chart a course for the global economy that prioritises these principles;
• establish plans to meet the principle of the United Nations Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights that states "higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education."
• propose bold action to combat global poverty; make real progress to prevent global warming and transform the global economic and financial system to create a fair and sustainable world.