Malala Yousafzai Has Responded to Taliban Takeover, Plight of ‘My Afghan Sisters’
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Malala Yousafzai has expressed deep concerns for women and children in Afghanistan since the Taliban entered the country’s capital on Aug. 15. Yet a post on social media falsely accused Yousafzai, a children’s rights advocate, of being “silent” about the Taliban takeover and the impact on Afghan girls and women.
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On her way home from an exam in 2012, Malala Yousafzai — then 15 and already an activist for girls to obtain an education in her native Pakistan after the militant group said girls could no longer attend school.
