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Girls’ education in spotlight as Stephen Colbert and Norwegian PM ‘battle’ on Twitter

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It was the heavyweight bout of the year. Stephen Colbert versus Erna Solberg. The comedian and host of American TV国产视频檚 The Late Show against the Prime Minister of Norway.

And the winner was 国产视频 girls国产视频 education!

These unlikely opponents swapped blows in a light-hearted exchange this week. Here国产视频檚 how the action unfolded.

Stephen is the host of the Global Citizen Festival听in New York国产视频檚 Central Park on September 26.

On August 17, Stephen makes this video for the Global Citizen website. At the one minute 30 mark, he explains why it is important to support funding for the Global Partnership for Education. He says听giving girls equal access to education worldwide is 国产视频渢he right thing to do国产视频.

Around the world, 31 million girls don国产视频檛 go to primary school and 62 million miss out on secondary school 国产视频 because of factors such as child marriage, child labour and discrimination. Achieving gender equality and empowering girls and women are among the new Sustainable Development Goals to be agreed by the United Nations in September.听A child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of five and one additional year of schooling can increase a woman国产视频檚 earnings by up to 20%.

In his video, Stephen tells people to 国产视频渋nvade Norway国产视频 国产视频 by sending tweets to Erna. He ends the film by tucking into a plate of lutefisk while listening to Norwegian death metal.

And he backs up his call by making the same plea to his 8.7 million Twitter followers.

Why Norway? Because the Scandinavian country already is a world leader in funding global education. It hosted the Oslo Education Summit in July 国产视频 at which major decisions were made affecting the campaign to get every child into school. Stephen reasons that where Norway goes, the rest of the world will follow.

So hundreds of thousands of tweets and emails flood in for the Norwegian PM. She says: 国产视频淭hank you for your messages. You国产视频檝e managed to clog my Twitter feed.国产视频 And she makes this YouTube reply to Stephen.

She tells him: 国产视频淏ut even the Vikings of Norway can国产视频檛 do it alone, Stephen.听That国产视频檚 why we encourage other countries, private companies and key partners to do more.国产视频

The American TV star is delighted by her response. He tweets this message.

And then Global Citizen confirms this breaking news about the New York festival.

So the cause of girls国产视频 education gets a worldwide audience thanks to this bizarre exchange. You can learn more about girls国产视频 education here. And if you don国产视频檛 know what lutefisk is, here国产视频檚 good old Wikipedia with the answer.

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