Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan Saturday, as she arrived for a global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world. Yousafzai was evacuated to the United Kingdom after her attack and went on to become a global advocate for girls' education and,

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" over their assault on women's rights.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.Yousafzai was evacuated to the United Kingdom and went on to become a global advocate for girls' education and,

Activist urges Muslim leaders to confront Afghanistan’s government over its oppressive policies against girls and women

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ISLAMABAD -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged ... sent shock waves across Pakistan and provoked international outrage. Yousafzai, who was 15 at the time, survived after months ...

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai will visit Pakistan for an international conference on girls’ education in Muslim communities. She will be a keynote speaker alongside Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The event aims to address education challenges and will conclude with the signing of the 'Islamabad Declaration'.

Nobel peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl. Yousafzai was ...

A Taliban official, Sher Abbas Stanikzai, has advocated that women and girls deserve to have an education, and calls for removing the restrictions on the female education in Afghanistan.

A top Taliban commander has called on the group's leader to lift the prohibition on Afghan women and girls attending school, stating that there is no excuse.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them. In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the foreign ministry, made the remarks during a speech in south-eastern Khost province.