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.

Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to reject the Afghan Taliban's restrictions on women's education, calling it a crime. Speaking in Islamabad, she emphasized unified action against the Taliban's gender apartheid.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders to classify gender apartheid as an international crime. At a summit focused on girls' education in Pakistan, Yousafzai called for unity against the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women,

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.