Campaign for the Right of Education in Iran

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People all over the world consider access to education as a basic human right. In many places, opportunities for education and training are almost taken for granted, particularly when they are nearly free of charge.

When we truly consider where we would stand without having received the benefits of education, we immediately understand and recognize how important and essential education is for every successful professional career and work situation, as well as our effective participation in society. To be denied the right to education would result in disastrous consequences for both the individual and the society in which we live.

In Iran, the denial of education is a reality that many young people are being forced to accept as they are systematically being denied access to universities and institutions of higher learning. This is not because the institutions of learning are not available, but rather, because these young people have different political views, social affiliations or religious convictions.

The Iranian government systematically uses the exclusion from education as a means of their discrimination policy. Student activists, feminists, human rights defenders, bloggers, and members of ethnic and religious minorities are punished for their commitment to their beliefs by expulsion from, and non-admittance to, universities and institutions of higher learning.

Also adherents of the Baha’i Faith, who are committed to the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), an educational network of the Iranian Baha’is, are subject to severe persecution by the Iranian government.

Wilfully denying these young people access to education interferes with their basic human rights and personal opportunities in life, and also contributes to the suffering of society as a whole.

The young people in Iran are facing an injustice we cannot choose to ignore. They urgently need the support of all those who want to see the right to education implemented throughout the world. It is our responsibility, as members of the global community, to ensure that this right is respected and that justice is adhered to.

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