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STORY: UN / AFGHAN GIRLS EDUCATION
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
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24 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (UNESCO):
“This year the Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay decided this international day to girls and women in Afghanistan, who have been, as everybody knows deprived, of their right to education. Currently, all Afghan girls and women above the age of 12 are denied access to secondary schools and, more recently, to universities following the decisions of the de facto authorities.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (UNESCO):
“A basic human right is at risk and adjust the listening to the voices of these girls and women, young women who talk to us, to all the community, also the international community connected with us today. And they say very simply, they put it very simply. Mean, okay, as at the UN you have to discuss with the de facto authorities and to develop the political diplomatic conversation with them about… But please work on the ground, work for people there, especially women and girls and weak people there. Otherwise, you're ready learned the lessons from the past. So that's also the message which comes to us concretely from those who are most affected.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (UNESCO):
“The idea of scholarships cannot, in my opinion, cannot for the next month, as we see the situation now, it is involving, will be still at stake. With higher education, we have to think and move more creatively and also involve the international community. We are thinking of an alliance of universities for instance, to make this a huge responsibility, a collective afford to host Afghan girls and women in the coming months.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (UNESCO):
“I mentioned the radio channel as the most effective tool to reach out from Kabul, at least because as far as you know, connectivity is not a common good for all the rural zones. I think that courses, lessons in classrooms online cannot be a solution for the entire country.”
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The fifth International Day of Education is celebrated under the theme “to invest in people, prioritize education”. UNESCO is dedicating this year's International Day to girls and women in Afghanistan who have been deprived of their right to education.
Speaking to journalists in New York today (24 Jan), Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said, “Currently, all Afghan girls and women above the age of 12 are denied access to secondary schools and, more recently, to universities following the decisions of the de facto authorities.”
Giannini added, “A basic human right is at risk and adjust the listening to the voices of these girls and women.”
She repeated the message coming from Afghan young women “please work on the ground, work for people there, especially women and girls and weak people there.”
According to Giannini, “With higher education, we have to think and move more creatively and also involve the international community.”
She also said about an alliance of universities as a collective afford to host Afghan girls and women in the coming months.
Asked about other solutions, Giannini said, “I mentioned the radio channel as the most effective tool to reach out from Kabul, at least because as far as you know, connectivity is not a common good for all the rural zones.”
She continued, “I think that courses, lessons in classrooms online cannot be a solution for the entire country.”
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