Malala Yousafzai
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 May
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TED Talks Daily · What I got wrong about changing the world | Malala Yousafzai · 14 Apr 2026
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I picked up my phone and saw the Taliban had taken control of Afghanistan.
I was stunned, shattered, terrified, angry.
How could I continue to have faith that things would improve?
How could anyone believe that leaders were committed to girls' education when they handed over an entire country to the men who pointed a gun at my head and pulled the trigger?
From the recovery room, I called Afghan women I knew, activists who were working around the country.
They were frightened, too.
On TV, experts and politicians were saying that the Taliban had changed, that this new version of the Taliban wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women.
The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it.
And they were right.
Today, in Afghanistan,
Girls are not allowed to attend school past sixth grade.
It is a crime.
Women, who five years ago were doctors, politicians, engineers and artists, are not allowed to go to university or pursue a career.
A woman speaking in public is a crime.
But do you know what is not considered a crime?
This year, in 2026, the Taliban decreed that it is legal for men to beat their wives and daughters.
The Taliban have imposed a system of segregation and domination, a gender apartheid, on millions of women and girls.
For years, I thought the purpose of my life was to serve girls.
After Afghanistan, the optimism I had as an 11-year-old activist was gone.
But I couldn't walk away.
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