ISLAMABAD: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Sunday (12 January) urged Muslim leaders to help efforts to make gender apartheid a criminal offense below worldwide legislation, and referred to as on them to talk out in opposition to Afghan Taliban for the way in which they deal with girls and ladies.
At a summit on ladies’ schooling in Muslim communities attended by worldwide leaders and students in her house nation of Pakistan, Yousafzai stated Muslim voices should cleared the path in opposition to the insurance policies of the Taliban, which have excluded ladies teenage ladies from faculty and girls from universities.
“In Afghanistan a complete era of women can be robbed of their future,” she stated in a speech in Islamabad. “As Muslim leaders, now’s the time to boost your voice and use your energy.”
The Taliban say they respect girls’s rights in accordance with their interpretation of Afghan tradition and Islamic legislation. Spokesmen for the Taliban administration didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Yousafzai’s statements.
No overseas authorities has formally acknowledged the Taliban since they took management of Afghanistan in 2021, and diplomats have stated steps towards recognition require a change in fact on girls’s rights.
