Activist urges Muslim leaders to confront Afghanistan’s government over its oppressive policies against girls and women

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" over their assault on women's rights.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls.

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Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Saturday joined a global summit on the education of Muslim girls that was snubbed by Afghanistan's Taliban government.Yousafzai was evacuated to the United Kingdom after her attack and went on to become a global advocate for girls' education and,

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s rights in Taliban-led Afghanistan as “gender apartheid.”

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to "legitimise" the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" by opposing their curbs on women and ...

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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has called on Muslim leaders to confront the Taliban government in Afghanistan for its oppressive policies against girls and women. Speaking at an international ...

A senior Taliban official has called for the reversal of the group's controversial ban on education for Afghan women and girls, describing the policy as unjust and un-Islamic.Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior political deputy at Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry,

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.