Malala Yousafzai, 24, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner to survive the Taliban shooting, said at the UN General Assembly on the 24th (local time) that “there is no compromise between the education of women and the protection of human dignity in Afghanistan.”
Yousafzai said this at the UN General Assembly’s debate on Afghan women’s education, which she participated in videotaped on the same day, saying, “Now is the time to stick to the promise to guarantee the rights of Afghan women. Yousafzai, who was born in Pakistan in 1997, fought for women’s education rights against the Pakistani Taliban since the age of 11. After receiving treatment in Birmingham, England, he miraculously recovered and continued to work for the right to education for women and children. In 2017, he went to Oxford University in England to study political science, philosophy, and economics.
Reuters pointed out at the UN General Assembly that leaders from several countries promised to work to ensure women’s rights in Afghanistan, but how to do so was not specific. Concerns over women’s rights in the region are growing as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years in August. The Taliban violated women’s rights when they came to power in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, and even banned men from going out without their relatives. The Taliban government is committed to change, but concerns are growing when it announced last week that it would reopen schools to only boys, excluding girls, Reuters reported.
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