Malala Yousafzai: Poisonings in Iran are an attempt to silence the voices of girls
Malala Yousafzai, a human rights and girls’ education activist, has described the poisoning of female students in Iran as an attempt to scare young women away from education and silence their voices.
Yousafzai, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in girls’ education, wrote on her Twitter that the poisoning of hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls is a horrific and violent attempt to scare young women away from education and silence their voices.