Nobel laureate and women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai has condemned the Taliban government’s actions in Afghanistan. He identified the Taliban’s policy of women in government management as ‘extremely anti-women, brutal and oppressive’.
In a post shared on X on Thursday, Malala criticized the Taliban’s systematic repression of Afghan women and girls and the violent enforcement of restrictive laws.
She described the Taliban’s treatment of women as ‘gender apartheid’, citing public beatings and restrictions on freedom of education, work and movement.
Malala called for immediate global intervention. At the same time, world heads of state, international organizations and Muslim-majority countries called on the Afghan Taliban to be held accountable for their actions through international law.
Malala expressed concern that the Taliban were misusing religion and culture to justify their policies.
There are allegations that the Taliban have taken away many of the rights of Afghan women after coming to power. Last August, 35 new regulations were enacted and recorded as law. Laws have been introduced, prohibiting women from appearing in public in front of men and even prohibiting their voices and faces from being seen or heard in public. Because of these laws, Afghan women are increasingly isolated.
The international community has been criticizing these moves, but little concrete action has been taken to stop them.
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. Father Ziauddin and mother Tur Pekai Yousafzai. He has been actively contributing to the spread of women’s education in spite of hundreds of obstacles and adversities. Malala is the youngest Nobel laureate at just 17 years old. He received this award in Shanti in 2014.
At the time, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) main faction spokesman Mohammad Umar Khorasani claimed that Malala won the Nobel Prize “not for education, but for campaigning for Western culture”. The United Nations declared Malala Day on July 12, 2013, on her 16th birthday.
