Different rooms. Different conversations. Different parts of 🇵🇰. Yet the same thread running through them all: people trying, in their own way, to make things a little better for the next generation with women and girls at the heart of it. From #digital access and children’s #rights to our partners and girls in #Diamer, #Punjab and #Balochistan continuing to #learn, lead and push forward despite the barriers, this week was a reminder that progress rarely happens in one big moment. It happens because people keep showing up. Perhaps that is my takeaway: despite the obstacles, learning continues. Girls continue to rise. People continue to show up. As my mother used to remind me with Iqbal: تندیِ بادِ مخالف سے نہ گھبرا اے عقاب یہ تو چلتی ہے تجھے اونچا اُڑانے کے لیے

started UNGA by giving a speech at the Malala Fund “The World She Build” gala as a Malala Fund Education Champion. It was a delight speaking on the importance of girls education and the urgency to invest in it now. #UNGA

Five years. More than 200 edicts. Afghan women are still waiting for justice. At the Goals Lounge during #UNGA81, @Malala, @GaisuY, @Metra_Mehran and @AsilaA were clear: what the Taliban have built is gender apartheid, and it must be named as a crime against humanity. So far, 14 countries have endorsed codifying gender apartheid in the Crimes Against Humanity Treaty. We urge every government to join them. Thank you to @IrishMissionUN and @UN_Partnerships for co-hosting. #GenderApartheid #AfghanWomen #StandWithAfghanWomen #UNGA81

Last evening, the Muslim World League's "AI for Everyone" gathering brought faith, policy, and development leaders together, and I was honored to moderate the evening's panel on AI and Global Development with Ambassador Roya Rahmani of the World Bank Group, Antón Leis García, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, and Laura Herman of Dalberg Advisors. According to the ITU, 2.2 billion people remain offline and UNCTAD reports that 118 countries are absent from the discussions on AI governance. As a scholar of Educational Displacement, I know that a sense of invisibility and disconnection often follows inequitable access or treatment. The evening brought together important voices including H.E. Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League; H.E. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos of the UN Alliance of Civilizations; Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD; and others. I also had the distinct privilege of meeting @Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spoke eloquently of women's rights everywhere, with no exception. I am deeply grateful to His Excellency Sheikh @MhmdAlissa and @MWLOrg_en for convening us. @interfaithtc was honored to serve as a strategic partner of the Muslim World League for this evening. Photo: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Malala Yousafzai

Notice - you won’t seen any woman in the audience. But you’ll see all audience are men listening to a woman. Pashtun culture is men culture. #PashtoonCultureDay

Ms. Malala Yousafzai, a leading global advocate for girls’ education, supported by the United Nations through International Malala Day, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and known for her distinguished perspective on artificial intelligence, delivering her remarks at the opening session of the MWL event, AI for Everyone, featuring a range of thematic discussions, with the support and participation of the United Nations, during the High-level Week of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. #UNGA81

Yesterday evening, in the presence of H.E. Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa @MhmdAlissa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League and Chairman of the Organization of Muslim Scholars, and during the High-level Week of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly: With the support of the United Nations and the participation of H.E. Mr. Miguel Moratinos, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; H.E. Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; H.E. Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; and a large and diverse group of religious leaders interested in research on AI ethics. With the participation of Ms. Malala Yousafzai, a leading global advocate for girls’ education, supported by the United Nations through “International Malala Day,” and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and her distinguished thesis on artificial intelligence. With the attendance and participation of representatives of major AI companies in the United States, the World Bank, representatives of leading American universities, and prominent candidates for the position of United Nations Secretary-General: The Muslim World League (MWL) launched from New York the event “AI for Everyone: Faith, Human Dignity and Artificial Intelligence.” The event focused on the importance of diverse international participation in addressing AI ethics, including the religious and civilizational dimensions and their shared ethical foundations, which represent an important area of research on these ethics, entrusted internationally to the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC). This initially includes content that supports or incites hatred, violence, and clashes between civilizations, driven by religious, intellectual, and other ideological motives. Technology companies have highlighted these issues through reports they receive about shortcomings in content in relation to the beliefs of many users, and are keen to address the agreed-upon shortcomings under a United Nations framework. Accordingly, the preliminary recommendation emerging from some of the opening remarks and the subsequent dialogue sessions emphasized the importance of tasking UNAOC with developing an “Alliance of Civilizations Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence.” The recommendation included forming a committee for this purpose, led by UNAOC and comprising a diverse range of religious leaders, experts in intellectual, educational, and legislative matters, and representatives of technology companies, to reach a UN-based consensus on this matter. Through its High Representative, Mr. Miguel Moratinos, UNAOC expressed its full readiness to undertake this task, and the participants thanked His Excellency for his positive response. The MWL Secretary-General announced that the MWL would launch an AI laboratory in cooperation with technology companies to develop programs benefiting religious, educational, and humanitarian institutions connected with religious affairs. He also announced that work would be undertaken on the automation of a number of Islamic and Arabic sources and books to make them available to AI companies, with due regard for intellectual property rights. He further announced the establishment of a dedicated unit to monitor and correct translation errors. Major errors have been identified in translations of a number of Islamic texts and related Islamic sciences, giving rise to meanings that bear no relation to the truth and resulting in profoundly mistaken perceptions and convictions.