Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid legal push

Nobel Peace Prize winner calls for raising voices for Afghan girls under Taliban control

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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks during the "Girls' Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities" summit in Islamabad on Jan. 12. © Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- 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.

At a summit on girls' education in Muslim communities attended by international leaders and scholars in her home country of Pakistan, Yousafzai said Muslim voices must lead the way against the policies of the Taliban, who have barred teenage girls from school and women from universities.

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