Internationally recognized Pakistan women’s activist risks life in impossible odds for education
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Malala defies Taliban to take world stage
AFP – Malala Yousafzai is to address the United Nations on Friday, nine months after a Taliban gunman put a bullet in her head believing he was ending the Pakistani teenager’s campaign for girls’ education. The young woman will mark her 16th birthday.
Swat girls throng to school as Malala addresses UN
AFP – When the Pakistani Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai in the head, their message to the world was simple: girls have no right to an education and their dreams of a better future should be crushed. The attack portrayed the world’s only Muslim nuclear power.
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