RASC News Agency: Following the Taliban group’s further restriction of education for Afghanistani girls and women, Leonardo Garnier, the special advisor to the UN Secretary General, said that the pressure on the Taliban group should be maintained.
During a press conference, he said that the pressures of the international community and the United Nations to remove the restrictions on girls’ education in Afghanistan are vital and must be maintained.
He added, extremism has penetrated everywhere in the world and no country in the world is immune from the education of extremism and we must be careful of countries like Afghanistan.
At the same time, Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General of UNESCO, also said about the education of girls in Afghanistan that the organization will closely monitor the situation of education in Afghanistan and will continue its role in supporting the right to education.
He stated that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are working in about 20 provinces in Afghanistan this year and have provided education for about 40,000 students.
Giannini also stated that 60% of the students who benefit from this educational program are Afghanistani girls.
The Assistant Director General of UNESCO emphasized that the United Nations has mobilized its resources to find more ways to access education for the underprivileged.
The Taliban group in Afghanistan has banned girls from going to schools and universities since taking power, in a new decree they have told some provinces that girls above the age of 10 do not have the right to education.
