Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has highlighted the global crisis in girls’ education, stressing the need for collective action to ensure every girl has access to school.
“We must begin by recognizing what we are up against, a crisis that has held our economy back to hundreds of billions in lost growth,” Malala said in a speech the other day. which is harming the health, safety and security of our people.” International Conference on Girls Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities” on Sunday.
The federal capital hosted a two-day conference that brought together global experts, educationists to address issues related to girls’ education in Muslim countries.
Malala emphasized that “if we do not deal with this crisis, our society will not develop as it should”.
“We will fail to live up to Islam’s core values of learning.”
He said that this conference is an encouraging first step. “But we can only have an honest and serious conversation about girls’ education if we call out its worst violations.”
Malala said that girls in many Muslim countries, including Yemen and Sudan, are living in dire conditions, facing poverty, violence and forced marriages.
“In Afghanistan, an entire generation of girls is being robbed of their future. If Afghan girls’ education is not discussed, this conference will not achieve its purpose,” she said. “The Taliban-ruled country is one of the only countries in the world where girls are completely barred from education,” he added.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more details.