Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai told CBSMornings that she is not shocked that the Taliban banned women and girls from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan.
women and girls from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan.
"It was their activism that made it possible for them to get access to education, to get jobs, to be part of the parliament, to be part of everyday public life. And suddenly that public life is taken from them. That women are erased from public life," Yousafzai said. The hardline religious Taliban ruled over Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, before U.S.-led armed forces removed the group from power, before the group retook the country following the U.S. withdrawl in May 2021. They have since deprived girls of their fundamental rights by banning secondary education for grades six and above.
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