Afghanistan Women's rights: Malala Yousafzai calls for Taliban not to be legitimized
Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has called for the Taliban ruling Afghanistan not to be legitimized in view of their massive discrimination against women. The Taliban had created a system of "gender apartheid" and deprived women of all freedoms. "Their cruelty knows no bounds," said Yousafzai at a summit on girls' education. To date, no country in the world has officially recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
12.01.2025, 15:40
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt in northern Pakistan as a schoolgirl in 2012, also accused the Islamists of not considering women as human beings and "camouflaging their crimes with cultural and religious justifications".
The Taliban are internationally criticized for their massive curtailment of women's rights, among other things. Although they promised a more moderate form of government when they returned to power in August 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan are excluded from higher education, the majority of professions and many public spaces.
