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

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai, decried the state of women's and girl's rights in Afghanistan while at a conference in Islamabad (Jan. 12).

Ms Yousafzai was shot in the face by the Taliban when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2012. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai called on Muslim leaders to withhold recognition of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and to actively oppose its harsh restrictions on women’s and girls’ education.