Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai instructed "CBS Mornings" that she shouldn't be shocked that the Taliban banned girls and ladies from attending universities and from getting increased schooling in Afghanistan.
She stated that ever because the Taliban captured energy over 15 months in the past, circumstances for girls are getting worse and years of change are being erased in entrance of the world's eyes.
"It was their activism that made it doable for them to get entry to schooling, to get jobs, to be a part of the parliament, to be a part of on a regular basis public life. And instantly that public life is taken from them. That girls are erased from public life," Yousafzai stated.
Yousafzai was shot within the head in Pakistan in 2012, when she was 15, after being focused by the Taliban for talking out on schooling for younger girls. She turned the youngest particular person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, at 17, for her work in schooling advocacy.
The hardline spiritual Taliban dominated over Afghanistan from 1996 till 2001, earlier than U.S.-led armed forces eliminated the group from energy, earlier than the group retook the nation following the U.S. withdrawl in Could 2021. They've since disadvantaged ladies of their elementary rights by banning secondary schooling for grades six and above.
"They're failing within the cultural justification, the spiritual justification, as nicely. And it is actually about the way forward for the Afghan folks. It is as much as the Afghan folks to determine how they need to reside their life. It is lower than males to determine their futures for them," stated Yousafzai.
In a press release Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the U.S. "condemns within the strongest phrases" the Taliban's choice to ban girls and ladies from attending universities in Afghanistan.
Yousafzai is asking on extra world leaders to handle the difficulty and to be allies for Afghan girls who've been main mass protests for months.
"The reality of protests will likely be when leaders reply and listen to their name to motion," she stated.