Education Above All Foundation (EAA) deplores the recent decision to ban all girls and women from attending schools and universities in Afghanistan, and calls for all students in Afghanistan to be given equal access to education at every level, regardless of their gender. Education is a human right that states must safeguard for all their citizens without discriminaton. No party should deprive a person form the right to education, and states, civil society, communities and parents must work together to ensure that children and young people have access to safe, quality primary, secondary and higher education.

EAA is currently helping 250 Afghan students, half of them women, restart their studies after they were forced to leave Afghanistan last year. Through the Qatar Scholarship for Afghan Refugee Project, recently displaced Afghans can now continue their post-secondary education, thereby increasing their chances of building stable and prosperous futures for themselves and their families.

Source: Education above All