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.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" over their assault on women's rights.

Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to reject the Afghan Taliban's restrictions on women's education, calling it a crime. Speaking in Islamabad, she emphasized unified action against the Taliban's gender apartheid.