Malala Yousafzai calls on the countries of the world to open their borders to Afghan refugees. In an interview she also underlines the importance of education for refugee children and girls.
Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai has called on governments around the world to take in refugees from Afghanistan.
“Every country now has a role and a responsibility,” said the 24-year-old in a BBC interview that was broadcast on Monday evening. “The countries must open their borders to Afghan refugees, to the displaced people.”
She herself has already turned to governments and also asked Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to accept refugees. In addition, refugee children and girls in camps should have access to education.
Malala Yousafzai was the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her commitment to the right of all children to education. In October 2012, at the age of 15, she survived an assassination attempt after Taliban fighters stopped her school bus and shot her in the head in northern Pakistan. Today she lives in the UK.
Afghan women and girls shouldn’t have to go through what they experienced in Pakistan under the Taliban. “We hid our books under our scarves,” said Yousafzai. “Armed Taliban stood everywhere and told women they weren’t allowed to work, they weren’t allowed to go shopping and girls weren’t allowed to go to school.” Heads of government now have to be courageous and protect human rights.
The British opposition also called for a generous, broad-based admission program for refugees from Afghanistan. The British government announced that it would present its plans as soon as possible.
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