ISLAMABAD, Jan 12 — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai today urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls.

BARCELONA, March 9 —  Holding signs such as "Respect my existence or expect my resistance," thousands of women on Monday protested across Spain against gender violence and in support of equal rights at International Women's Day rallies.