Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the freedoms of women and girls by the Taliban

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.

Simply put, the Taliban do not see women as human beings,’ Malala told the attendees a summit on girls’ education in Islamic nations. ‘They cloak their crimes in cultural and religious justification’