Right to Learn Afghanistan
@righttolearn.ca
Right to Learn Afghanistan exists to make the right to education a reality for Afghan women and girls.
Formerly, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan
Formerly, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan
A new global index ranking 188 countries on inclusion, justice, and security places Afghanistan at the bottom. Women and girls face widespread restrictions on education, employment, healthcare, movement, and access to justice.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A new global index ranking 188 countries on inclusion, justice, and security places Afghanistan at the bottom. Women and girls face widespread restrictions on education, employment, healthcare, movement, and access to justice.
Read more:
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Read more:
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Calling all educators! 📚
These free human rights lesson plans from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation help students explore empathy, equity, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore them at mcic.ca
These free human rights lesson plans from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation help students explore empathy, equity, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore them at mcic.ca
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Calling all educators! 📚
These free human rights lesson plans from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation help students explore empathy, equity, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore them at mcic.ca
These free human rights lesson plans from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation help students explore empathy, equity, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore them at mcic.ca
Mahnoor*, a Darakht-e Danesh Classroom student, shares her story of how opening up and accessing mental health support helped her.
Stories like Mahnoor’s remind us that mental health support can change lives.
💬 We invite you to share a message of encouragement for Afghan students in the comments.
Stories like Mahnoor’s remind us that mental health support can change lives.
💬 We invite you to share a message of encouragement for Afghan students in the comments.
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Mahnoor*, a Darakht-e Danesh Classroom student, shares her story of how opening up and accessing mental health support helped her.
Stories like Mahnoor’s remind us that mental health support can change lives.
💬 We invite you to share a message of encouragement for Afghan students in the comments.
Stories like Mahnoor’s remind us that mental health support can change lives.
💬 We invite you to share a message of encouragement for Afghan students in the comments.
If you could invent a rule that everyone followed, what would it be?
This was the question our volunteer English tutor asked the students in our Darakht-e Danesh Classroom online high school.
After deliberation, the girls responded (in English) that they would invent:
This was the question our volunteer English tutor asked the students in our Darakht-e Danesh Classroom online high school.
After deliberation, the girls responded (in English) that they would invent:
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
If you could invent a rule that everyone followed, what would it be?
This was the question our volunteer English tutor asked the students in our Darakht-e Danesh Classroom online high school.
After deliberation, the girls responded (in English) that they would invent:
This was the question our volunteer English tutor asked the students in our Darakht-e Danesh Classroom online high school.
After deliberation, the girls responded (in English) that they would invent:
Our team will be offline from December 24–January 2 as we pause for a seasonal break.
Thank you for standing with Afghan women and girls this year.
Wishing you a restful end to 2025 and a hopeful new year ahead.
Thank you for standing with Afghan women and girls this year.
Wishing you a restful end to 2025 and a hopeful new year ahead.
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our team will be offline from December 24–January 2 as we pause for a seasonal break.
Thank you for standing with Afghan women and girls this year.
Wishing you a restful end to 2025 and a hopeful new year ahead.
Thank you for standing with Afghan women and girls this year.
Wishing you a restful end to 2025 and a hopeful new year ahead.
Afghan women and girls continue to choose learning against all odds.
Hear from Razia, one of our students, as she shares what it means to continue learning when continuing itself becomes an act of courage.
🎥Watch the story: youtu.be/m4ERdWQpUO8
Hear from Razia, one of our students, as she shares what it means to continue learning when continuing itself becomes an act of courage.
🎥Watch the story: youtu.be/m4ERdWQpUO8
Continuing is Possible
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December 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Afghan women and girls continue to choose learning against all odds.
Hear from Razia, one of our students, as she shares what it means to continue learning when continuing itself becomes an act of courage.
🎥Watch the story: youtu.be/m4ERdWQpUO8
Hear from Razia, one of our students, as she shares what it means to continue learning when continuing itself becomes an act of courage.
🎥Watch the story: youtu.be/m4ERdWQpUO8
We applaud Australia’s new autonomous framework, which places much-needed pressure on Taliban leaders through sanctions, travel bans, etc.
These steps send a clear message: the Taliban’s treatment of women & girls will not be tolerated.
Why sanctions matter:
righttolearn.ca/taliban-lead...
These steps send a clear message: the Taliban’s treatment of women & girls will not be tolerated.
Why sanctions matter:
righttolearn.ca/taliban-lead...
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We applaud Australia’s new autonomous framework, which places much-needed pressure on Taliban leaders through sanctions, travel bans, etc.
These steps send a clear message: the Taliban’s treatment of women & girls will not be tolerated.
Why sanctions matter:
righttolearn.ca/taliban-lead...
These steps send a clear message: the Taliban’s treatment of women & girls will not be tolerated.
Why sanctions matter:
righttolearn.ca/taliban-lead...
3 years after Afghan women were banned from universities, the consequences ripple through every part of life.
Despite this, Afghan women keep learning, organizing, & demanding their rights.
Learn how you can take action with our Higher Education Advocacy Toolkit:
righttolearn.ca/higher-educa...
Despite this, Afghan women keep learning, organizing, & demanding their rights.
Learn how you can take action with our Higher Education Advocacy Toolkit:
righttolearn.ca/higher-educa...
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
3 years after Afghan women were banned from universities, the consequences ripple through every part of life.
Despite this, Afghan women keep learning, organizing, & demanding their rights.
Learn how you can take action with our Higher Education Advocacy Toolkit:
righttolearn.ca/higher-educa...
Despite this, Afghan women keep learning, organizing, & demanding their rights.
Learn how you can take action with our Higher Education Advocacy Toolkit:
righttolearn.ca/higher-educa...
Looking for a meaningful Christmas gift that gives back?
The Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis follows Parvana, an Afghan girl navigating life under restrictions on women and girls.
Royalties from book sales support Right to Learn!
deborahellis.com/the-breadwinner-series
The Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis follows Parvana, an Afghan girl navigating life under restrictions on women and girls.
Royalties from book sales support Right to Learn!
deborahellis.com/the-breadwinner-series
December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Looking for a meaningful Christmas gift that gives back?
The Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis follows Parvana, an Afghan girl navigating life under restrictions on women and girls.
Royalties from book sales support Right to Learn!
deborahellis.com/the-breadwinner-series
The Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis follows Parvana, an Afghan girl navigating life under restrictions on women and girls.
Royalties from book sales support Right to Learn!
deborahellis.com/the-breadwinner-series
What happens when education isn’t in a language you fully understand?
Teachers like Farahnaz show how multilingual teaching builds confidence, identity, and access to global knowledge for students.
Learn more about language used as a powerful teaching tool: asiapacificmle.net/blogs/view?i...
Teachers like Farahnaz show how multilingual teaching builds confidence, identity, and access to global knowledge for students.
Learn more about language used as a powerful teaching tool: asiapacificmle.net/blogs/view?i...
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What happens when education isn’t in a language you fully understand?
Teachers like Farahnaz show how multilingual teaching builds confidence, identity, and access to global knowledge for students.
Learn more about language used as a powerful teaching tool: asiapacificmle.net/blogs/view?i...
Teachers like Farahnaz show how multilingual teaching builds confidence, identity, and access to global knowledge for students.
Learn more about language used as a powerful teaching tool: asiapacificmle.net/blogs/view?i...
Celebrate the Night of Yalda in Vancouver this weekend!
Join a cozy winter solstice gathering with Persian and Afghan traditions, poetry, stories, festive foods and music.
Details and tickets: righttolearn.ca/event/night-of-yalda/
Join a cozy winter solstice gathering with Persian and Afghan traditions, poetry, stories, festive foods and music.
Details and tickets: righttolearn.ca/event/night-of-yalda/
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Celebrate the Night of Yalda in Vancouver this weekend!
Join a cozy winter solstice gathering with Persian and Afghan traditions, poetry, stories, festive foods and music.
Details and tickets: righttolearn.ca/event/night-of-yalda/
Join a cozy winter solstice gathering with Persian and Afghan traditions, poetry, stories, festive foods and music.
Details and tickets: righttolearn.ca/event/night-of-yalda/
On Human Rights Day, the UN warned that restrictions in Afghanistan are pushing girls and women out of public life and the classroom. Every barrier to learning holds back the country’s future.
More on the UN’s warning: kabulnow.com/2025/12/un-w...
More on the UN’s warning: kabulnow.com/2025/12/un-w...
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
On Human Rights Day, the UN warned that restrictions in Afghanistan are pushing girls and women out of public life and the classroom. Every barrier to learning holds back the country’s future.
More on the UN’s warning: kabulnow.com/2025/12/un-w...
More on the UN’s warning: kabulnow.com/2025/12/un-w...
Afghan women and girls continue to hold onto something no restriction can erase: their right to learn.
Despite the world’s strictest limitations, their commitment to education endures.
Your support helps keep that right within reach.
righttolearn.ca/get-involved/
Despite the world’s strictest limitations, their commitment to education endures.
Your support helps keep that right within reach.
righttolearn.ca/get-involved/
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Afghan women and girls continue to hold onto something no restriction can erase: their right to learn.
Despite the world’s strictest limitations, their commitment to education endures.
Your support helps keep that right within reach.
righttolearn.ca/get-involved/
Despite the world’s strictest limitations, their commitment to education endures.
Your support helps keep that right within reach.
righttolearn.ca/get-involved/
These inspiring NY State high school students, Gabriella, Allison, Maddie & Kayla, turned learning into action!
They hosted a bake sale that raised $500 for Afghan girls’ education, supporting Darakht-e Danesh Classroom, our online high school. Thank you for standing up for the right to learn!
They hosted a bake sale that raised $500 for Afghan girls’ education, supporting Darakht-e Danesh Classroom, our online high school. Thank you for standing up for the right to learn!
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
These inspiring NY State high school students, Gabriella, Allison, Maddie & Kayla, turned learning into action!
They hosted a bake sale that raised $500 for Afghan girls’ education, supporting Darakht-e Danesh Classroom, our online high school. Thank you for standing up for the right to learn!
They hosted a bake sale that raised $500 for Afghan girls’ education, supporting Darakht-e Danesh Classroom, our online high school. Thank you for standing up for the right to learn!
Even when classrooms are closed, the knowledge gained from education cannot be erased.
This season, send a tribute eCard that supports real education for Afghan girls. A small gesture here can mean a path forward for her.
Send a gift that truly matters: righttolearn.ca/send-an-ecard
This season, send a tribute eCard that supports real education for Afghan girls. A small gesture here can mean a path forward for her.
Send a gift that truly matters: righttolearn.ca/send-an-ecard
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Even when classrooms are closed, the knowledge gained from education cannot be erased.
This season, send a tribute eCard that supports real education for Afghan girls. A small gesture here can mean a path forward for her.
Send a gift that truly matters: righttolearn.ca/send-an-ecard
This season, send a tribute eCard that supports real education for Afghan girls. A small gesture here can mean a path forward for her.
Send a gift that truly matters: righttolearn.ca/send-an-ecard
On International Human Rights Day, December 10th, join our Ottawa Chapter for a vigil.
Everyone is welcome to this free event! Bring friends and family and stand with Afghan women this International Human Rights Day.
More info: righttolearn.ca/event/light-...
Everyone is welcome to this free event! Bring friends and family and stand with Afghan women this International Human Rights Day.
More info: righttolearn.ca/event/light-...
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
On International Human Rights Day, December 10th, join our Ottawa Chapter for a vigil.
Everyone is welcome to this free event! Bring friends and family and stand with Afghan women this International Human Rights Day.
More info: righttolearn.ca/event/light-...
Everyone is welcome to this free event! Bring friends and family and stand with Afghan women this International Human Rights Day.
More info: righttolearn.ca/event/light-...
At a time when Afghan women and girls are being pushed out of classrooms, workplaces, and public spaces, you chose to support their right to learn on #GivingTuesday.
Your generosity helps keep education within reach.
Stay connected to their stories with our newsletter:
righttolearn.ca/subscribe/
Your generosity helps keep education within reach.
Stay connected to their stories with our newsletter:
righttolearn.ca/subscribe/
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At a time when Afghan women and girls are being pushed out of classrooms, workplaces, and public spaces, you chose to support their right to learn on #GivingTuesday.
Your generosity helps keep education within reach.
Stay connected to their stories with our newsletter:
righttolearn.ca/subscribe/
Your generosity helps keep education within reach.
Stay connected to their stories with our newsletter:
righttolearn.ca/subscribe/
Afghan women were banned from university on Dec 20, 2022 but they haven’t stopped learning.
Knowledge endures even when classrooms close.
Support higher education pathways for Afghan women:
righttolearn.ca/higher-education
Knowledge endures even when classrooms close.
Support higher education pathways for Afghan women:
righttolearn.ca/higher-education
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Afghan women were banned from university on Dec 20, 2022 but they haven’t stopped learning.
Knowledge endures even when classrooms close.
Support higher education pathways for Afghan women:
righttolearn.ca/higher-education
Knowledge endures even when classrooms close.
Support higher education pathways for Afghan women:
righttolearn.ca/higher-education
Even when the world tries to limit their futures, Afghan women and girls hold onto knowledge with remarkable strength.
Some things cannot be erased.
Stand with Afghan women and girls:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
Some things cannot be erased.
Stand with Afghan women and girls:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Even when the world tries to limit their futures, Afghan women and girls hold onto knowledge with remarkable strength.
Some things cannot be erased.
Stand with Afghan women and girls:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
Some things cannot be erased.
Stand with Afghan women and girls:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
In Canada, moving freely is part of daily life: going to work, school, the store, or to see friends.
On Aug 21, 2024, Afghan women lost that freedom.
Learn more about this system of erasure and how you can take action:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
On Aug 21, 2024, Afghan women lost that freedom.
Learn more about this system of erasure and how you can take action:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In Canada, moving freely is part of daily life: going to work, school, the store, or to see friends.
On Aug 21, 2024, Afghan women lost that freedom.
Learn more about this system of erasure and how you can take action:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
On Aug 21, 2024, Afghan women lost that freedom.
Learn more about this system of erasure and how you can take action:
righttolearn.ca/knowledge-ca...
In Canada, public spaces support our wellbeing and learning.
In Afghanistan, women lost that freedom.
On Nov 10, 2022, women and girls were banned from parks, gyms, and other public spaces.
But knowledge cannot be erased.
Act against gender apartheid: righttolearn.ca/gender-apart...
In Afghanistan, women lost that freedom.
On Nov 10, 2022, women and girls were banned from parks, gyms, and other public spaces.
But knowledge cannot be erased.
Act against gender apartheid: righttolearn.ca/gender-apart...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In Canada, public spaces support our wellbeing and learning.
In Afghanistan, women lost that freedom.
On Nov 10, 2022, women and girls were banned from parks, gyms, and other public spaces.
But knowledge cannot be erased.
Act against gender apartheid: righttolearn.ca/gender-apart...
In Afghanistan, women lost that freedom.
On Nov 10, 2022, women and girls were banned from parks, gyms, and other public spaces.
But knowledge cannot be erased.
Act against gender apartheid: righttolearn.ca/gender-apart...
A world without women in the workforce is hard to imagine in Canada.
In Afghanistan, the picture is very different.
But knowledge doesn’t disappear when someone is pushed out of public space.
Afghan women long to continue learning. Help reopen paths to opportunity: righttolearn.ca/advocate-now/
In Afghanistan, the picture is very different.
But knowledge doesn’t disappear when someone is pushed out of public space.
Afghan women long to continue learning. Help reopen paths to opportunity: righttolearn.ca/advocate-now/
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A world without women in the workforce is hard to imagine in Canada.
In Afghanistan, the picture is very different.
But knowledge doesn’t disappear when someone is pushed out of public space.
Afghan women long to continue learning. Help reopen paths to opportunity: righttolearn.ca/advocate-now/
In Afghanistan, the picture is very different.
But knowledge doesn’t disappear when someone is pushed out of public space.
Afghan women long to continue learning. Help reopen paths to opportunity: righttolearn.ca/advocate-now/
Imagine if every girl in a Canadian classroom disappeared in a single day.
That’s what happened in Afghanistan on Sep 12, 2021, when girls in Grades 7–12 were banned from school.
But Afghan girls keep studying however they can.
Knowledge can’t be erased.
Advocate: righttolearn.ca/girls-educat...
That’s what happened in Afghanistan on Sep 12, 2021, when girls in Grades 7–12 were banned from school.
But Afghan girls keep studying however they can.
Knowledge can’t be erased.
Advocate: righttolearn.ca/girls-educat...
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Imagine if every girl in a Canadian classroom disappeared in a single day.
That’s what happened in Afghanistan on Sep 12, 2021, when girls in Grades 7–12 were banned from school.
But Afghan girls keep studying however they can.
Knowledge can’t be erased.
Advocate: righttolearn.ca/girls-educat...
That’s what happened in Afghanistan on Sep 12, 2021, when girls in Grades 7–12 were banned from school.
But Afghan girls keep studying however they can.
Knowledge can’t be erased.
Advocate: righttolearn.ca/girls-educat...
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we honour Afghan women and girls facing one of the world’s most systematic forms of gender-based violence: erasure from society.
But knowledge is power that cannot be erased.
But knowledge is power that cannot be erased.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we honour Afghan women and girls facing one of the world’s most systematic forms of gender-based violence: erasure from society.
But knowledge is power that cannot be erased.
But knowledge is power that cannot be erased.
Our high school students in the Darakht-e Danesh Classroom Literary Club have been busy bringing our storybooks to life—they've recorded a beautiful selection of children’s audiobooks.
🎧 Listen to the story of Mary who enjoys playing with soapy bubbles on laundry day: bit.ly/4pf5KFc
🎧 Listen to the story of Mary who enjoys playing with soapy bubbles on laundry day: bit.ly/4pf5KFc
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our high school students in the Darakht-e Danesh Classroom Literary Club have been busy bringing our storybooks to life—they've recorded a beautiful selection of children’s audiobooks.
🎧 Listen to the story of Mary who enjoys playing with soapy bubbles on laundry day: bit.ly/4pf5KFc
🎧 Listen to the story of Mary who enjoys playing with soapy bubbles on laundry day: bit.ly/4pf5KFc