Davos (Switzerland) – Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Thursdayurged women to “change the world” without waiting for the help of men, asshe addressed an audience of the global, and mostly male, elite at theWorld Economic Forum in Davos.[image: Malala lauds feminism as Trump lands in Davos]
Malala lauds feminism as Trump lands in Davos
The 20-year-old global education campaigner spoke not long before thearrival in Davos of US President Donald Trump, who reached the White Housea year ago despite revelations of inappropriate conduct towards women.
On Saturday across the United States, thousands of demonstrators took tothe streets in a Women’s March to mark a year to the day since hisinauguration.
The annual Davos conference, which unites the world’s business andpolitical elite, also takes place this year in the shadow of the feminist#MeToo campaign that shook Hollywood and spread across the globe in 2017link=>Sponsored link>
“We won’t ask men to change the world, we’re going to do it ourselves,”said Yousafzai.
“We’re going to stand up for ourselves, we’re going to raise our voices andwe’re going to change the world,” she said.
Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in her nativePakistan in 2012 for insisting on the right of girls to go to school, hasbecome a global sensation, pleading for the education of women.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has continued her campaigningwhile pursuing her studies at Oxford University.
“Feminism is just an other word for equality … and no one will object toequality,” she said.
“It is very simple, it’s not as complicated as some people have made it.” -AFP