Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014, says that “The Taliban do not consider women as human beings”

Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, at the age of 17, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the prize. She shared it with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist. So I can adjust the brief to include this specific information:

Pakistani women’s rights activist and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai spoke at an international summit in Islamabad. The one who survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012 for having defended the education of girls in Pakistan, forcefully denounced the Afghan Taliban regime, affirming that they “do not consider women as human beings”.

A global figure in the defense of women’s rights since her adolescence, Malala denounces a real “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan, the only country in the world where girls are completely deprived of education beyond the sixth year. She emphasizes that nothing in Islam justifies these restrictions, which today affect around 1.5 million young Afghan women.

Beyond Afghanistan, the activist also pointed to other humanitarian crises affecting girls’ education, notably in Gaza where “the education system has been decimated”, as well as in Yemen and Sudan, where according to her “the girls’ entire future is stolen”. Her intervention recalls the urgency of international mobilization to protect the right to education of girls in conflict zones.