Malala Yousafzai

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2,791 appearances 13 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 28 May

Malala Yousafzai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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What is happening in Afghanistan is a wake-up call for all of us.

Because the Taliban's cruelty against women and girls did not begin in 2021.

They tried to silence me a decade earlier in Pakistan.

And before I was even born, they were stopping girls from school in parts of Afghanistan.

Yet, we have no international laws against gender apartheid.

no way to hold the perpetrators and their sympathizers accountable.

That is why Afghan women are campaigning to add these abuses to the UN's Crime Against Humanity Treaty.

And I have joined this movement to ensure that we change things for women and girls everywhere.

It is a big goal.

I know it may take many years to see the Taliban brought to justice.

But I will keep fighting so that these crimes are not committed against another generation of girls anywhere in the world.

When I think about the 11-year-old girl I once was, I want her to be proud of who I am today.

I want her to know that although changing the world is not as simple as she thought, I will not give up.

Here is the truth.

I don't have all the answers on how to change the world, and I don't believe anyone else does either.

If I have learned anything, it is that progress is never guaranteed.

There isn't one speech or one story, one moment or one person that can bend the arc of history on their own.

But if we start with something, work together and stay ambitious, hope stops being the thing we wait to feel and becomes something we create.

Thank you.

Fresh Air · Malala Finds Her Way · 30 Dec 2025 podcast

Going to Oxford was my childhood dream, and I wanted to be

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