{"id":116138,"date":"2023-08-16T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/nothing-allowed-for-them-afghan-women-demand-education-rights-in-un-appeal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:15:47","slug":"nothing-allowed-for-them-afghan-women-demand-education-rights-in-un-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/nothing-allowed-for-them-afghan-women-demand-education-rights-in-un-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing allowed for them\u2019: Afghan women demand education rights in UN appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEngineering student Somaya Faruqi had to flee Afghanistan to continue her studies after the Taliban government returned to power two years ago and banned more than 1.1 million girls and women from schools and universities. The 21-year-old, now living in the United States, is the face of a campaign launched Tuesday by the UN\u2019s Education Cannot Wait global fund to combat the crisis, marking the two-year anniversary of the fall of the internationally recognized government in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Under the motto #AfghanGirlsVoices, the operation is spearheading a global call to respect all Afghan girls\u2019 and women\u2019s right to education. Countless of these girls and women have already had to leave the country to continue their education. Faruqi, for example, finished high school in Qatar after she and nine other girls from her robotics team, \u201cThe Afghan Dreamers\u201d left Afghanistan in 2021. Now, she is beginning her second year studying engineering at Sacramento State university in California, thanks to a scholarship from Qatar. \u201cThis campaign is meant to bring the attention of the world again to the girls in Afghanistan, and (their) education issues,\u201d Faruqi told AFP by telephone. \u201cAfghanistan seems to be forgotten,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The near-total exclusion of women from Afghan public life, including in education and employment, has become one of the major sticking points preventing the international community from offering aid and official recognition to the Taliban government. Conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan are the \u201cworst globally,\u201d a UN report found last month, saying that the Taliban government\u2019s policies \u2014 which are based on their strict interpretation of Islam \u2014 could amount to a \u201cgender apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the state of women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan \u201cshould count as a crime against humanity, and it should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court,\u201d the UN special envoy for global education, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, told reporters during a video meeting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, only one month after returning to power for the first time in 20 years, the Taliban authorities banned girls from attending secondary school, before closing university doors to them in December 2022 and then heavily restricting their participation in the workforce. For Faruqi, these circumstances cannot stand: \u201cWe have to make sure that (girls and women) have access to equal opportunities, and they have access to education, because education is the key to freedom,\u201d she told AFP. \u201cGirls have been banned from public spaces: schools, gyms, parks; there is nothing allowed for them to do; just to stay at home,\u201d she explained in a UN statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For many families, the only path forward for their daughters is marriage, \u201cregardless of their consent,\u201d she told AFP, adding that many of her own classmates have been forced to marry. \u201cDepression is widespread. The rate of suicide for girls has gone up a lot in the last two years. It is tragic,\u201d she said in the statement. The Education Cannot Wait campaign will aim to raise global awareness of the issue via social media into next month, amplifying the voices of Afghan girls and women just as world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly September 18 and 19.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/nothing-allowed-for-them-afghan-women-demand-education-rights-in-un-appeal\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/nothing-allowed-for-them-afghan-women-demand-education-rights-in-un-appeal\/\">\u2018Nothing allowed for them\u2019: Afghan women demand education rights in UN appeal<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1045,590,794,387,606,607,608,568],"class_list":["post-116138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-demand","tag-education","tag-rights","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}