Dare to educate Afghan girls - Shabana Basij-Rasikh
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Imagine a country where girls must sneak out to go to school, with
deadly consequences if they get caught learning. This was Afghanistan
under the Taliban, and traces of that danger remain today. 22-year-old
Shabana Basij-Rasikh runs a school for girls in Afghanistan. She
celebrates the power of a family's decision to believe in their
daughters -- and tells the story of one brave father who stood up to
local threats. (Filmed at TEDxWomen)
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The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan.
10x10 is a feature film, Girl Rising, and a social action campaign, created and launched by an award-winning team of former ABC News journalists in association with The Documentary Group and Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions. We use the power of storytelling and the leverage of strategic partnerships to deliver a single message: educating girls in developing nations will change the world.SOLA is a people-to-people, non-profit organization dedicated to furthering educational and leadership opportunities in Afghanistan and the world for the new generation of Afghanistan, especially for women. The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) was launched in 2000 by the UN Secretary-General to assist national governments as they fulfill their responsibilities towards ensuring the right to education and gender equality for all children, girls and boys alike. UNGEI works to improve the quality and availability of girls’ education in support of the gender-related Education for All goals, the second Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to achieve universal primary education, and MDG 3 to promote gender equality and empower women.Girls can play a crucial role in solving the most persistent development problems we face in the world today. The Girl Effect is a movement about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves.Today, thousands in Iran are denied formal university education due to their religious or ideological beliefs. Watch and share the trailer of a 30-minute documentary entitled Education Under Fire telling the poignant and compelling story of the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) – the only chance for an entire minority community in Iran to receive an education.
10x10 is a feature film, Girl Rising, and a social action campaign, created and launched by an award-winning team of former ABC News journalists in association with The Documentary Group and Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions. We use the power of storytelling and the leverage of strategic partnerships to deliver a single message: educating girls in developing nations will change the world.SOLA is a people-to-people, non-profit organization dedicated to furthering educational and leadership opportunities in Afghanistan and the world for the new generation of Afghanistan, especially for women. The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) was launched in 2000 by the UN Secretary-General to assist national governments as they fulfill their responsibilities towards ensuring the right to education and gender equality for all children, girls and boys alike. UNGEI works to improve the quality and availability of girls’ education in support of the gender-related Education for All goals, the second Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to achieve universal primary education, and MDG 3 to promote gender equality and empower women.Girls can play a crucial role in solving the most persistent development problems we face in the world today. The Girl Effect is a movement about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves.Today, thousands in Iran are denied formal university education due to their religious or ideological beliefs. Watch and share the trailer of a 30-minute documentary entitled Education Under Fire telling the poignant and compelling story of the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) – the only chance for an entire minority community in Iran to receive an education.
Is there a universal human right to free and public education for all? Or is it a right that should be earned?
Is important that in the world everybody has education, to make them grow in the personal environment and make grow the society in all forms.
It relates to The Crucible because the people in The Crucible had their Ideology that their religion had to be a certain way and it couldn't be changed in anyway. In Dare To Educate the Taliban had their Ideology that girls couldn't get an education and nothing could change it at all.
I think about every student in the US has complains about school. While there's young girls and their parents risking their lives, homes, etc. so that they can get an education. It made me more appreciative for my education.
I just don't understand why boys would get an education but girls couldn't. I mean they could learn how to clean and take care of the family on the weekends but girls education is just as important as boys.
well iam so lucky to live in a familly with full of opportunities and iam a muslim an afgan another deal i must admit that i have permeation from my religion and family moreover islam always mention about education and girls boys beside men and women could do whatever they want whenever but clearly and truly i want to say taliban are not real muslims
I think that everyone needs to be educated because it is our right, no matter the religion or gender.
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