Banning Girls from School is a Violation of Human Rights

Since it emerged from over two decades of war 7 years ago, Afghanistan has made steady progress across almost all economic and social sectors: girls are going to school again, all ethnic groups are being given equal rights, and power grids are up and running in much of the country. Women and men have equal right in the country and the women can play positive rule in different part of the society in Afghanistan.

Thousands of female health care worker has been trained by the support of international community and now they are working in hundreds of local health care clinics around the country and they are always saving the mothers and baby's live since 2001. 

Violence against women reduced in the country and now its rate has come down since the Taliban regime collapsed and now thousands of girls are going to school and they will become strong human resource in the future. 

 Unfortunately, many of these development gains have also been quickly lost due to continuing civil unrest, which is destroying infrastructure and preventing both national and international development staff from doing much-needed work in many parts of the country. 

Still there is a lot of work should be done by the current government, many schools should be build and many university should be created for high education. Soon thousands of students will be eligible for high education which it should be arranged for the future generation. 

It is to say that, Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their human right and education plays a fundamental role in human, social and economic development. There has been an impressive decrease in the number of out-of-school children in Afghanistan since 2001, in particular by reducing the number of girls that are not in school. Nevertheless, major challenges in achieving gender parity remains, drop outs rate remain high. 

According to the government, 3.5 million children are out of school, and 85 percent of them are girls. Only 37 percent of adolescent girls are literate, compared to 66 percent of adolescent boys.

Unfortunately due to economical problem of the families in the rural areas, still thousands of children are unable to go to school and they drop out of school. the following images is belong to a girl from a poor family in Bameyan who was grazes the sheep's to support her family. In Afghanistan villages and rural area's most of the girls under the age of 15 doing these job to increase their families incomes.

Photo and Text: by Najeeb Farzad 

Bameyan: 2010