Statement on Afghan Women's and Girls' Right to Education



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## Statement on Afghan Women's and Girls' Right to Education

01/10/2021 |
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The Network of Gender Equality Units for University Excellence (RUIGEU) is deeply concerned about the difficulties, barriers and restrictions on access to schools that Afghan women and girls are suffering, seriously compromising - *de facto* or *de iure* - one of their most basic human rights, the right to education, to the point of nullifying it.

The closure of secondary schools for adolescent girls while maintaining boys' schools clearly demonstrates the Taliban government's hostility to respecting the fundamental right of women and girls to education. Hindering, restricting or outright preventing women and girls from exercising this basic right shows the endemic violence they suffer.

Education is essential to guarantee the intellectual development of people. It gives them increasing levels of autonomy that allow them to live a dignified and independent life. Girls and women cannot in any way be deprived of the exercise of this right.

Therefore, as long as the current conditions in Afghanistan persist, we urge Spanish universities to activate all kinds of programmes, grants, scholarships, etc., aimed at Afghan teachers and female students, as envisaged by the Online Linguistic Support initiative of the Erasmus programme. We hope that other higher education institutions in the European Union will join this initiative.

It is time to show, beyond merely declarative acts, sorority and real commitment to our Afghan colleagues.

24 September 2021

Cover photo of the exhibition "Women of Afghanistan" (Gervasio Sánchez and Mònica Bernabé).

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