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Fajer Rabia Pasha (born 1984) is the executive director of Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education [1] She is a social entrepreneur, activist, global leader, and influencer fighting for education rights for girls in Pakistan. [1]
Dr. Malik also worked with Asian Development Bank on Skills and Employment and skills required in the fourth Industrial Revolution. He was also Member of the Steering Committee and Drafting Group of Framework For Action beyond 2015 by UNESCO Paris. He is the founding trustee of Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE). Dr.
Gender equality in education is a basic right and a prerequisite to build inclusive societies. While progress has been made globally, large gender gaps still exist in education in many settings. Globally, 122 million girls and 128 million boys are out of school. Women still account for almost two-thirds of all adults unable to read. [7]
As the only girl in her village to receive a formal education, this Pakistani disabled woman started a school for underprivileged children. Disabled woman is revolutionizing girls’ education in ...
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police ...
Destruction of schools and killings have harmed women's education in Pakistan. 16-year-old education activist and blogger Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck by Taliban insurgents 9 October 2012 after she had blogged about the destruction of schools and closing of all-girls schools in her town of Mingora in the Swat District.
Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi , she has become Pakistan's "most prominent ...