Malala Yousafzai

Yes.

And I remember when I was in South Africa, I was giving a speech at the Nelson Mandela lecture and I wanted to support the Afghan women's campaign of gender apartheid.

So they're calling leaders to recognize what's happening in the country as a gender apartheid because it is actually systemic oppression.

And they wanted to be considered as an international crime and the Taliban should be held accountable for it.

So I gave my speech.

I did my interviews.

You know, we had conversation with South African female activists and allies and everything went really well.

And then on the last night, like in the middle of my sleep, I just suddenly woke up and I was shaking and sweating.

And I had like this terrible panic attack where I thought, you know, I could just I could die.

I

I was sort of screaming, and yeah, it was terrifying.

But this time my husband was with me, and he was holding my hand, and he helped me and supported me.

So it was just a reminder that the fear is there, and the fear is for what other Afghan women and girls are experiencing right now.

It is terrifying.

It is truly terrifying.

You know, I have lived through those experiences.

I have seen them.

And when we were going through the Taliban's brutal time in our hometown in Swat Valley in the north of Pakistan, we wanted the world to see it because this is a reality that women are actually living.

These are

not things that have happened in the past and they have stopped.