{"id":128726,"date":"2023-01-23T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=128726"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:44:57","slug":"unesco-dedicates-international-day-of-education-2023-to-afghan-girls-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/unesco-dedicates-international-day-of-education-2023-to-afghan-girls-women\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO dedicates International Day of Education 2023 to Afghan girls, women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>UNESCO dedicates International Day of Education 2023 to Afghan girls, women:<\/strong> UNESCO\u00a0has decided to dedicate the\u00a0International Day of Education\u00a0to be celebrated on\u00a0January 24, 2023, to Afghan girls and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An overview of the news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNESCO Director-General&nbsp;Audrey Azoulay&nbsp;said that no country in the world should prevent women and girls from getting education and it is a universal human right that should be respected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international community has a responsibility to ensure that the rights of Afghan girls and women are restored without delay. UNESCO and other international organisations should take concrete steps to address the issue of women and girls in&nbsp;Afghanistan under Taliban rule. According to UNESCO, currently around&nbsp;80 percent of Afghan girls&nbsp;and young women of school-age are out of school under Taliban rule, as they are denied access to secondary schools and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-january-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since&nbsp;15 August 2021, Afghanistan has barred girls from attending secondary school, restricted the freedom of movement of women and girls, and excluded women from most areas of the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UNESCO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)&nbsp;is a specialised agency of the&nbsp;United Nations (UN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. It is also a member of the United&nbsp;Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), a coalition of UN agencies and organisations aimed at fulfilling the&nbsp;Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Headquarters:&nbsp;Paris, France<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director General:&nbsp;Audrey Azoulay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Founded:&nbsp;16 November 1945 in London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The organisation has&nbsp;193 members&nbsp;and&nbsp;11 Associate members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO dedicates International Day of Education 2023 to Afghan girls, women: UNESCO\u00a0has decided to dedicate the\u00a0International Day of Education\u00a0to be celebrated on\u00a0January 24, 2023, to Afghan girls and women. An overview of the news UNESCO Director-General&nbsp;Audrey Azoulay&nbsp;said that no country in the world should prevent women and girls from getting education and it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":128727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[99,2123],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-128726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2023","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128728,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128726\/revisions\/128728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128726"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=128726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}