The Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai charged today during a speech in South Africa that the Taliban regime has made it impossible to “be a girl” in Afghanistan and called for “gender-based apartheid” to be labeled a “crime against humanity”. “The Taliban made it illegal to be a girl and it comes at a cost,” Malala Yousafzai said during a rally in Johannesburg organized by the Mandela Foundation to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of South Africa’s first black president. , underlining that girls in Afghanistan are “turning to drugs” and “trying to end their lives” because of the “repression”.
Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban government has engaged in curtailing women’s rights in Afghanistan. Within two years, secondary schools then universities closed their doors to women, while they were also banned from parks, hammams and sports centres. Malala Yousafzai was honored in 2014 with the Nobel for her fight for girls’ right to education. “It is imperative that we call the Afghan regime what it really is: a gender-based apartheid regime,” she complained today from Johannesburg.
“South Africans fought for racial apartheid to be labeled as such and criminalized internationally. In this way, they drew the world’s attention to the suffering of apartheid,” Malala Yousafzai emphasized. “Apartheid based on sex has not yet been categorically codified. We have a chance to do it. From now on,” he suggested.
Source: News Beast
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