ABUJA: Pakistani education advocate and United Nations Messenger of Peace, the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has told a gathering in Abuja, Nigeria that the world must do more to ensure education for more than 120 million out of school girls around the world.
Addressing at the event, Malala said that she always tried to draw the world’s attention to girls as about 120 million of them are denied the right to education by patriarchy, poverty, conflict, and climate.
She said that the world could celebrate a girl who attends university, takes a job, chooses to use the right to marry by herself, but it could not deceives into thinking that enough progress had been made in this regard.
Malala said that she was happy for those girls who prospered despite the challenges they faced,but her heart aches for those who could not.
Malala Yousafzai appreciates initiatives to boost education, gender equality
She appreciated global initiatives to boost education and gender equality, which would contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of standard education for all by 2030. But she stressed that these few of victories could not hide how little has changed for hundreds of millions of girls, including because of the fallout from the pandemic.
Malala also undelined the situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s return to power two years ago. She said taht previously, one in three girls was enrolled in university in Afghanistan but today it is the only country in the world where girls and women are banned from pursuing an education.
