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The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". [129] Yousafzai wore one of Benazir Bhutto's shawls to the UN. It was her first public speech since the attack, [149] leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world. [150]
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said Tuesday that the world needs to recognize and confront the “gender apartheid” against women and girls imposed by the Taliban since they seized ...
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist. He has three children, a daughter—Malala Yousafzai—and two sons—Khushal and Atal. After writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu and being subject to a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, Malala began gaining a public profile as an advocate for female education and for speaking about the conditions of life under the growing ...
In 2017, Whitley was commissioned by Radio 3 to compose a piece for International Women's Day, setting the words of Malala Yousafzai's 2013 speech to the UN. [6] The piece, called Speak Out, was premiered on 8 March 2017 in the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff , with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Chorus of Wales alongside the children's ...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday likened restrictions the Taliban has placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a lecture in South ...
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi (b. 1954) and Malala Yousafzai [1] (b. 1997) "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". [2]
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest ...