Today 24, January 2023 marks the International Day for Education where different people and organizations across the world are coming together to celebrate the International Day of Education.

Meanwhile as part of the UNESCO celebration of the day, the body’s Director-General, Audrey Azoulay decided to dedicate the 2023 International Day of Education on January 24 to Afghan girls and women as a call to immediately restore the fundamental right to education across the planet.  

“Education is a universal human right that must respect. The international community has the responsibility to ensure that the rights of Afghan girls and women are restored without delay,” the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay has said.

As of now, the United Nations in New York, with the contribution of the UN Secretary-General, the President of the UN General Assembly and UNESCO’s Director-General is hosting an event for the celebration of the day of which the panel is devoted to embark on the rights of girls education and women in Afghanistan.

The year 2021 was not a good year for the Afghan girls and the entire community of women when the country saw the exchange of powers when the draconian Taliban took over the Afghanistan.

When the Taliban took power in August 2021, the administration announced that education for both boys and girls beyond the 6 grade would be suspended.

The Taliban later communicated that will revise the school curriculum so as to better reflect the Islamic values

Under the Taliban conservatism where women’s education is not supported, travel alone and strict dress codes such as Hijab wearing education humanitarian groups and children’s rights groups as well as UN agencies have been pushing for the common agenda of financing girls' education in Afghanistan as the body's primary concern.

UNESCO advocacy campaign reached over 20 million Afghans to increase public awareness of the right to education for youth and adults, especially adolescent girls and women. UNESCO has partnered with NGOs on the ground, providing content and funding to deploy a community-based literacy campaign that targeted 25,000 young people and adults in rural areas, including mostly adolescent girls above the age of 15 and women.

To reach many girls and women, UNESCO is working to provide distance education through AFGHAN media outlets, especially radio stations. Radio is accessible to more than two-thirds of the population and has the advantage of being available directly in homes.

UNESCO is supporting them in the production of conflict-sensitive, humanitarian, health and educational public interest content, aiming to reach at least six million Afghans with a specific focus on women and girls. The support includes direct to a women-led station that will produce over 200 hours of educational

Rwanda as a country also played part in giving the right to education by supporting Afghan girls to continue their studies in the country.

President Paul Kagame also met the board members of SOLA-Afghanistan’s only girl's boarding attended by the school’s founder and President Shabana Basij Rasikh.

UNESCO’s official figures portray that about 2.5 million (80%) of school-aged Afghan girls and young women are out of school, and 1.2 were denied access to secondary education and universities following the Taliban’s de facto authorities.