Let’s rethink the building of a better world for girls

October 11 marks the girl’s international day, one day appointed by the United Nations General Assembly to strengthen the project to strengthen girls. As resolution The introduction of the day emphasizes that strengthening and investment in girls, which are critical to economic growth, the achievement of all millennium development goals, including the elimination of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the significant participation of girls, promoting and protecting complete and effective enjoyment.

At the center of girls’ empowerment is education. Education is an investment that can help build prosperous, healthy and fair societies. It can also break the poverty cycle and reduce inequalities. In the last 30 years, significant progress has been made to ensure that girls have access to education, with nearly 91 million more girls in elementary school and 136 million more at the Secondary School. In addition, the last three decades have seen women registration in higher education triple to 139 million. This progress must be recognized. However, further tasks are required because:

• Some 122 million girls Stay out of school worldwide.
• Nearly 4 out of 10 teenage girls and young women worldwide do not complete the highest secondary school.
• Nearly 50 million teenage girls and young women today are unable to read or write a simple sentence.

In 2025, there is no worse place for girls’ training than Afghanistan who possessed the Taliban. Since taking over Afghanistan, the Taliban has imposed restrictions on girls and women to exclude them from all aspects of their lives. As specified by UNICEF, the bans on girls’ secondary education has already been blocked 2.2 million The teenage girls. If the prohibition insists, UNICEF estimates that by 2030, almost four million Girls will be deprived of the opportunity to continue secondary education, excluding them from any possibility of participating in higher education. UNICEF also warns that this will have a serious effect on Afghanistan as a whole, with serious socio -economic consequences, as the suspension of Higher Education of Women in Afghanistan can lead to possible losses 9.6 billion $ By 2066, About two thirds of today’s national GDP. In addition, refusal to education has a profound effect on children, especially girls. Those who leave school at an early age are vulnerable to unemployment, poverty, early marriage and pregnancy.

UNICEF also said that the Afghan education system is at a critical crossroads, with “pressure from restrictive policies, chronic relegation and repetitive humanitarian crises that endanger the future of an entire generation and putting the development of the country”. According to the new Education Status Report of Afghanistan 2025 From UNICEF and UNESCO, more than 2.13 million primary school children remain out of school since 2024, while the majority of those who attend are very little learning. The 2022 Analysis suggests that the poverty of learning remains at unprecedented levels, with more than 90% of 10 years of being able to read even a simple text. Further challenges include: teacher deficiencies, limited materials, curriculum changes, weak supervision, poor infrastructure, lack of clean water, drainage or heating in schools, among others. In addition, about 1,000 schools remain closed.

The topic of 2025 for the international day of the girl is: “The girl I am, the change I drive: the girls in the first lines of the crisis”. UN Secretary -General António Guterres, signaling the day, We have underlined: “Our world is besieged by crises, conflicts explode. Solutions. He further called on states to prioritize their rights and invest in their opportunities, not only because they are right, but because it is necessary for peaceful, prosperous societies.

As we have been marking 30 years from Beijing DeclarationThe plan of the world for gender equality, the girl’s international day must be used to rejuvenate efforts to ensure that the rights of girls and women are guaranteed.