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Malala Yousafzai likens Taliban’s treatment of women to apartheid in Mandela lecture

Malala Yousafzai likens Taliban’s treatment of women to apartheid in Mandela lecture

NOBEL Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai likened restrictions the Taliban has placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a lecture in South Africa organised by Nelson Mandela's foundation. Yousafzai survived being shot in the head when she was 15 in her native Pakistan by a gunman after campaigning against the Pakistani Taliban's moves to deny girls education. Since winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, Yousafzai, now 26, has become a global symbol of the resilience of women in the face of repression. "If you are a girl in Afghanistan, the Taliban has…
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Malala pleads with world to protect Afghan girls’ education

Malala pleads with world to protect Afghan girls’ education

DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS NOBEL Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan as she left school in 2012, pleaded with the world on Friday not to compromise on the protection of Afghan women's rights following the Taliban takeover. As countries and organizations take the first steps to engage with the hardline Islamist group, the 24-year-old Yousafzai said she worried the Taliban would act as they did when they were in power 20 years ago despite a sharp increase in work and education opportunities for Afghan women since then. "We cannot make compromises on the protection…
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Malala Yousafzai says educate girls to fight climate change

Malala Yousafzai says educate girls to fight climate change

Lin TAYLOR  KEEPING girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, according to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Speaking to a virtual panel, Malala, 23, said educating girls and young women, particularly in developing countries, would give them a chance to pursue green jobs and be part of solving the climate crisis in their communities. "Girls' education, gender equality and climate change are not separate issues. Girl's education and gender equality can be used as solutions against climate change," Malala told an online event by British think-tank Chatham House. Before the COVID-19…
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