Afghanistan Peace CampaignThey say that education is one of their fundamental rights and the Islamic Emirate should open the gates of schools to girls as soon as possible.
Coinciding with World Science Day, girls who are students above the sixth grade want to reopen schools once again.
They say that education is one of their fundamental rights and the Islamic Emirate should open the gates of schools to girls as soon as possible.
“Eight hundred days is not a small number. A day for a girl to study is like a year, but it’s been 800 days since you deprived Afghan girls of education,” said Asma, a student.
Among the girls deprived of education, Shabnam, 18, is a young girl who dreams of becoming a doctor.
“Today is the World’s Science Day, and the largest part of the Afghan society, which are women, are deprived of their most basic right. My request to the caretaker government is to open the gates of schools to all Afghan girls as soon as possible,” Shabnam, a student, told TOLOnews.
On November 10th, World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated every year in different countries of the world.
A number of university teachers consider Afghanistan to be one of the countries where the education process has always been accompanied by challenges.
They say that the Islamic Emirate should put opening the gates of schools and universities on their agenda.
“Keeping a large part of the society, i.e. women and girls, from education is actually avoiding a religious order on the one hand and on the other hand, depriving this large and influential section of society from the blessing of literacy, which is actually a divine order,” said Hekmatullah Mirzada, a university scholar.
Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, says that the caretaker government is trying to make Afghanistan progress in various sciences.
“We want Afghanistan to be equal in sciences and reach the same stages that the countries of the world have reached, we are trying to progress in various sciences,” Zabihullah Mujahid said.
Earlier, Roza Otunbayeva, the head of UNAMA, at the Women in Islam conference in Jeddah, criticized what she called the violation of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.