Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to challenge policies restricting girls and women's schooling.

Summary

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women at a Pakistan summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities, stating, “The Taliban do not see women as human beings.”

She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as “gender apartheid” and un-Islamic.

Afghanistan is the only country banning education for girls beyond grade six, affecting 1.5 million girls.

Malala urged Muslim leaders to challenge these practices and advocate for girls’ education globally.

The Taliban declined to attend or comment.

  • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    76·
    17 hours ago

    We just elected in a man and party that want us to be the Christian version of the taliban.

    There’s also many areas where women are treated the same in the USA.

    • AquaTofana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      14 hours ago

      Nah fam. I’m a woman living in Texas and I’ll take fighting for abortion rights and closing the wage gap here in the US over living in Afghanistan any day of the week.

      Our situations are not even close, and I think you know that.

    • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      17 hours ago

      What part of the USA disallows women the right to go to high school or to speak in public?

      I hate the direction the U.S. is going as much as any sane person but it’s a disservice to everyone to say that women in Afghanistan and women in the U.S. are treated the same.