Afghan girl, who protested oppressive rules against women, wins children’s peace prize

In Afghanistan, women person been silenced done assorted diktats and oppressive rules by the Taliban medication which came to powerfulness successful 2021 aft the US’ withdrawal from the country. Nila was awarded with the prize for her “courageous enactment to combat for the rights of girls” successful Afghanistan.

Interacting with The Independent, Nila narrated her archetypal steps arsenic an activistic and said “It was risky. It felt risky astatine the time, but possibly I didn’t grasp the full thought of it, due to the fact that I was conscionable 13 oregon 14.”

On Tuesday astatine a relation successful Amsterdam, Nila was honoured with the prize which has been antecedently awarded to Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg and Nkosi Johnson. (Image: KidsRights.org)

She further said, “If women’s rights are suffering successful 1 portion of the world, the full satellite volition endure successful 1 mode oregon another.”

In March 2021, astir six months earlier the Taliban took implicit Afghanistan, the Kabul Education Directorate banned girls implicit the property of 12 from singing successful public. Nila protested the bid and refused to enactment silent. She recorded a protestation opus arsenic portion of the #IAmMySong question and it went viral. The bid was overturned wrong a fewer weeks.

“That was the archetypal clip that I thought, wow. Like if I bash privation it, if I bash deliberation this is the mode I privation to live, I tin talk up and that tin beryllium accepted,” Nila said, arsenic reported by CNN.

Nila fled Afghanistan with the assistance of 30 Birds Foundation on with her household to Pakistan. Thereafter, she near for Canada wherever she continues to advocator for Afghan girls.