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Activist urges Muslim leaders to confront Afghanistan’s government over its oppressive policies against girls and women

Twelve years after she was evacuated out of Pakistan as a badly wounded schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai has returned to her home country at a critical time for girls' education.

The Nobel Prize winner discusses her new documentary, Bread and Roses, and the Taliban’s escalating attacks

Bread & Roses exposes the realities faced by women in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021.

On each side of the Atlantic, so much rests on what she says. She is where pop meets politics now, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

From mayoral meetings with Lily Allen to bathroom trips with Leonardo DiCaprio, Boris Johnson has had his fair share of odd celebrity run-ins. Claudia Cockerell on the strangest ones to grace the pages of Unleashed, his new book

Like a magnet, these metallic red carpet looks really attract the attention

Who runs the world? Well definitely not girls and definitely not at the United Nations HQ, where at the weekend Malala Yousafzai launched a new campaign about “what girls want”. The girls’ education activist stood alongside other activists and launched this campaign in order to send a message to world…

Teenage girls are typically the least powerful and most underestimated group within Western cultures – where adults are seen as superior to children, and men are privileged above women. Girls can also provoke cultural fears and anxieties because they occupy a transitional space between childhood and adulthood.