#AfghanGirlsVoices

Education Cannot Wait’s #AfghanGirlsVoices global campaign highlights real-life testimonies of hope, courage and resilience by Afghan girls denied their right to education. Join our campaign and help us lift their voices globally!

Together with strategic partners, global leaders and prominent supporters from around the world, ECW launched the second phase of this powerful campaign to mark the 1,000th day since the unacceptable ban on girls’ secondary education. The campaign will run through the Summit of the Future during the UN General Assembly in September 2024.

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ECW's Global Advocates

The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown

"The world must unite behind Afghan girls. The denial of the right to a quality education is an abomination and a violation of the United Nations Charter, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and fundamental human rights. Through the global #AfghanGirlsVoices campaign, people everywhere can stand up for human rights and stand up for gender-justice by sharing these stories of courage, hope and resilience.”

UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Chair of ECW’s High-Level Steering Group

Yasmine Sherif

“As a global community, we must reignite our efforts to ensure that every adolescent girl can exercise her right to an education. Gender discrimination is unacceptable and will only hurt the already war-torn Afghanistan and her long-suffering people. Girls’ right to an education is a fundamental right as outlined in international human rights law. For the people of Afghanistan, adolescent girls’ education is essential to rebuild the country.”

Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait

Somaya Faruqi

“Girls in Afghanistan are resilient and they refuse to give up their dreams. 1,000 days without access to education is a severe injustice for Afghan girls, whose determination should be met with opportunities, not obstacles. Every day that passes, more girls find themselves forced into marriage due to lack of prospects for the future. This must stop. The world must hear the voices of girls who are only asking for one thing: their most basic right to education to be fulfilled."