New Delhi, December 6
Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday spoke up on the need to open up education for girl students in Afghanistan. At a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Malala pointed out that Afghanistan right now was the only country where girls did not have access to secondary education. “They are prohibited from learning. I have been working together with Afghan girls and women’s activists, and there is this one message from them: that they should be given the right to work. They should be able to go to school,” she said.
Malala referred to a letter from Sotodah, a 15-year-old Afghan girl, to US President Joe Biden, in which she said the longer schools and universities remain closed to girls, the “more it will shade hope for our future phase”. “If girls don’t learn, Afghanistan will suffer,” wrote Sotodah, according to the State Department transcript of the Biden-Malala meet. — TNS
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