Malala calls out Taliban on women's rights

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2 年前

STORY: The activist and Nobel Laureate told the international forum in Qatar that she had been optimistic the Taliban would allow girls to return to education, but the group backtracked on their previous commitment to open high schools to girls on Wednesday. Yousafzai, said girls in Afghanistan had been “waiting outside their schools, but the gates were closed, and they were crying.”

The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan said on Saturday he is hopeful that there will be a reversal of the Taliban's U-turn on girls' education in the coming days.

"I am hopeful that we will see a reversal of this decision in the coming days" Thomas West, U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, told the Doha Forum.