In an AFP interview, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai calls for Pakistan to stop deporting undocumented Afghans, especially women and girls, back to Afghanistan. The activist was speaking on her birthday, recognised by the UN as Malala Day.
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00:00When I saw Kabul fall to the Taliban, I knew that the future was very dark for women and
00:08girls.
00:09And we have seen it in the past three years, how the Taliban have imposed restrictions
00:14on women and girls.
00:15It is deeply concerning that Pakistan is forcing Afghan refugees based in Pakistan back into
00:22Afghanistan, and I'm deeply concerned about the women and girls.
00:27A lot of these girls in Pakistan were studying, they were in school.
00:31These women were doing work.
00:32And now Pakistani authorities are forcing them back to go to Afghanistan to put them
00:37in a situation where they would be living under a gender apartheid, where they would
00:41be systematically oppressed.