The representative of Barzani Charity Foundation in Europe and the United Nations, participated in the annual conference of the Human Rights Council and in his speech called on the Human Rights Council and the international community to support the freedom of education and learning in the mother tongue.
Mr. Awat Mustafa, Member of the Executive Board and Representative of Barzani Charity Foundation in Europe and the United Nations, participated in the Annual Conference of Ethnic Minorities of the Human Rights Council, which was held on 28 and 29\11\2024. He delivered a speech at the conference and pointed out that education and learning in Kurdish is allowed only in South Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurds in other parts of the country are deprived of this right. He also called on the Human Rights Council and the international community to support the Kurds to have the same right of education and learning in their mother tongue as other nations have.
The representative of Barzani Charity Foundation in Europe and the United Nations stressed that education and learning in the mother tongue is a true identity of any nation and should be allowed and not prevented in all countries of the world. He added: “Many people around the world are allowed to be educated in their own language, but the majority of the Kurdish people are deprived of this right. Only in South Kurdistan-Iraq, education in Kurdish is allowed and Kurds in other parts of Kurdistan are deprived of this right.”
Mr. Awat Mustafa, in a part of his speech that was positively welcomed by the participants of the conference, said: “In the universal right of human, language is described as the most important source of existence, but many countries where Kurds live haven’t allowed the people to have this right”. He called on the Human Rights Council and the international community to support the Kurdish people to have the same right to have education and learning in their mother tongue as other nations without differentiations and discriminatory.
