Education Rights for Girls around the Globe

Could you imagine not going to school? For some of us, it might sound like the greatest thing ever, but for others it is something you would fight for, break traditions, or even risk death for.

    In the United States, girls like us have the right to education, even though it might feel like we’re being forced to get up early in the morning for school. In just about every country, girls at some point were unable or discouraged to get an education just for being girls. Without education, girls were (and would be) unable to get good jobs, live on their own, see the world, or do all the other great things that we can do now.

    Sadly, some girls don’t have any of those opportunities even today. Education rights are very important, for girls and for girls of the future.

    In Mexico, many girls (and boys) do not finish their primary education. About 1 in every 10 students doesn’t finish grades K-12. If you think about it, that actually a lot of children.

    Indigenous children (especially girls) in very rural Mexico sometimes don’t get an education at all. Not going to school, and even dropping out increases the risk for turning to drugs, violence, and otherwise very unpleasant lifestyles not only in Mexico, but all over the world.

    Pakistan is another country of interest for girl’s education rights. The Taliban, an extreme Islamic political group guilty for many deaths and public terrorism in the Middle East do not believe that girls should go to school. They have shut down schools and  silenced teachers and activists.

    Often, in Middle East, people have thought that girls should not be educated for such a long time, that the idea has been passed down for generations and is still held true in their minds. It is the future, and girls should have the right to education, especially today in a time where education opens the doors to girls so they  can be engineers, astronauts, physicists, and so much more.

    For us, going to school is as easy as making it on time for the bus in morning. Some girls have to actually risk their lives for it. We are extremely lucky to be able to go to school freely, and learn without limit. Hopefully one day, our sisters around the globe will all be able to have the freedom of education as we do.

Girls everywhere deserve the right to education.