UNESCO has announced that this year’s International Education Day will be dedicated to Afghan women.
24th January is celebrated annually as the International Education Day following the declaration of the UN. This year’s International Education Day is just two days away. The resolution regarding International Education Day was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 3rd December 2018. International Education Day is being celebrated since 2019.
As the 5th International Education Day is to be celebrated on the 24th, UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has announced that this day will be dedicated to Afghan women. It is reported that seminars will be held that day at the UN headquarters with the aim of insisting on the return of education denied to Afghan women.
United Nations in New York, USA. In a seminar held at the headquarters, the UN It is reported that the Secretary General and President of the UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres, and UNESCO President Audrey Azoulay will attend and emphasize that education should be given to Afghan women again.
Audrey Azoulay, who has posted a comment on Twitter, said, “No country in the world should prevent girls from getting an education. Education is an international human right. It must be respected. The international community must take responsibility for immediate access to education, which has been denied to Afghan women. The war against women should be stopped.
In Afghanistan, 80 percent of school-age girls (about 2.5 million girls) are denied education. 12 lakh girls of higher education age have been denied higher education. Since the Taliban regime came to power in Afghanistan, women’s education has been opposed; It is noteworthy that measures against women continue to be enforced.