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In August 2021 the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, and since then secondary education for girls in the country has been banned. However, there have been reports of clandestine girls’ schools operating despite the ban. Teenage girls are reportedly taking extraordinary risks to attend lessons. Their teachers bravely share knowledge, even if they do not have extensive experience or the backup of an education system.

뉴욕,  2022년 8월 23일 /PRNewswire/ --비상 사태 및 장기화된 위기 상황에서의 교육을 위한 유엔 글로벌 기금 '교육은 기다릴 수 없습니다(Education Cannot, ECW)'는 오늘 2017년 기금 운영을 시작한 이래 전략적 파트너와 ECW 투자를 통해 700만 명에 달하는 아동 및 청소년(그 중 48.4%는 여아)을 지원했음을 보여주는 새로운 "우리에게는 지켜야 할 약속이 있습니다: 연례 보고서"를 발표했다. 

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, issued its new "We Have Promises to Keep: Annual Results Report" today indicating that ECW investments with strategic partners have reached close to 7 million children and adolescents – 48.4% of whom are girls – since the Fund became operational in 2017.

Education Cannot Wait ( ECW ), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, issued its new ” We Have Promises to Keep: Annual Results Report ” today indicating that ECW investments with strategic partners have reached close to 7 million children and adolescents – 48.4% of whom are girls – since the Fund became operational in 2017.

纽约2022年8月23日 /美通社/ -- 联合国全球紧急情况和长期危机教育基金"教育不能等待"（ECW）今日发布的《我们秉持承诺：年度业绩报告》表明，自2017年该基金投入运营以来，ECW与战略合作伙伴的投资惠及了近700万儿童和青少年（其中48.4%为女孩）。

LONDON – When Taliban leaders visited an elementary school in Kabul in October 2021, two months after retaking control of Afghanistan, several seven- or eight-year-old girls bravely stood up, one by one, to declare: “Our classes have resumed, but not for our older sisters. We have been promised that our older sisters will return to class, but this has not happened yet!”

Brave teenage girls and women who took to the Afghan streets to demand the right of girls to go to secondary school were subject to brutal suppression this weekend — yet more evidence of the repressive nature of the Taliban regime. These girls may be silenced for a time — but they will not remain silent for ever. Repression can be intensified but it will only smother protests for a time, not end them.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - is proud to support and participate in the 2022 Global Citizen Festival. Participants will call on world leaders at the UN General Assembly to step up and invest $600 million into the future of women and girls, close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall, deliver $500 million to help African farmers respond to the global food crisis, and provide relief from crushing debts to End Extreme Poverty Now.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – is proud to support and participate in the 2022 Global Citizen Festival. Participants will call on world leaders at the UN General Assembly – and ahead of the G20 and COP27 in November – to step up and invest $600 million into the future of women and girls, close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall, deliver $500 million to help African farmers respond to the global food crisis, and provide relief from crushing debts to End Extreme Poverty Now.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - is proud to support and participate in the 2022 Global Citizen Festival.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - is proud to support and participate in the 2022 Global Citizen Festival.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - is proud to support and participate in the 2022 Global Citizen Festival.