Dr. Lauryn Oates
Executive Director, Right to Learn Afghanistan
Afghanistan, women's rights, girls, Afghan women, women Afghanistan, girls' and women's education, online education, technology for education, education in emergencies, education in conflict zones, Taliban, human rights, foreign aid, international development, literacy, women's empowerment, gender equity, equality, teacher education
Media
Dignifying the Taliban in Doha While Reports of Systemic Sexual Violence Emerge
UN must recognize gender apartheid in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has the same righteous cause as Ukraine
Oates: How Canada can help Afghan women regain access to education and jobs
Protecting education should be at the centre of peace negotiations in Afghanistan
Thanks God for the Facebook!, in: Children of Afghanistan
by Eds. A. Zahedi and J. Heath
University of Texas Austin
The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children’s songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation.
Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan “the worst place on earth to be born.” The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country’s cultural, social, and economic institutions.
Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South (Chapter 15)
by Goger, L.K., Hashimi, J. & Farahmand, M., & Oates, L.
University of Cape Town
March 1, 2018
Chapter 15: An Early Stage Impact Study of Localised OER in Afghanistan. In C. Hodgkinson-Williams & P.B. Arinto (Eds.), Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South. Chapter 15.
Biography
Dr. Lauryn Oates is the Executive Director of Right to Learn Afghanistan, formerly known as Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, a registered Canadian charity that has worked to advance human rights and education for women and girls in Afghanistan since the time of the first Taliban rule, 1996-2001, and remains active delivering educational programming for Afghan women and girls. She holds a BA Honours in International Development from McGill University, an MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University, and a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia. She has worked with a variety of development organizations, multilateral agencies and governments designing, planning, evaluating or implementing programming in education and in gender equality, particularly in war-affected countries. She is the recipient of several awards and distinctions, including a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal awarded by the province of BC.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Queen Soraya Initiative Award, 2024 | Professional
https://8am.media/eng/8am-media-annual-conference-concludes-in-washington-d-c-prestigious-awards-presented-to-winners/
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, Province of British Columbia, 2013 | Professional
https://news.gov.bc.ca/stories/premier-clark-celebrates-some-of-bcs-finest-with-queens-medal
Royal Roads University Alumni Leadership Award, 2013 | Professional
http://www.royalroads.ca/alumni/award-recipient/lauryn-oates