MALALA AND WOMEN
RIGHTS
Malala Yousufzai, a sixteen year old
teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, shot in the head
while returning from school. Malala now stands up raising campaigns for the
right of girls to go to school without the fear of being attacked by militants
belonging to the Pakistani Taliban. Even at the tender age of 16, Malala
Yousafzai is celebrated as a powerful education and women’s rights activist
from Pakistan’s Swat valley. Yousafzai began blogging for BBC
News under the pseudonym Gul Makai, to describe her day-to-day routine in a
town threatened by constant militant activity and her blogs were read worldwide
and were highly appreciated by people belonging to different parts of the
world. Yousafzai has already earned a spot on TIME
magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People In The World,” an international day
of recognition, a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the youngest
to ever be considered for the award, and most recently, the attention of the
United Nations General Assembly.
Malala, despite the fact that she is
still receiving threats from the Pakistani Taliban, still stands strong and
refuses to take back her statement.
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