The most remarkable ability that could be attributed to me at the age of fifteen was having not crushed my skull or lost a significant amount of my digits doing stupid shit. Ms.Yousafzai has considerably less going for her, but is doing considerably more. She is fighting for right for children to be educated.
This is what she wrote:
On 15 June fourteen girls were murdered in Pakistan simply because they wanted an education. Many people know my story but there are stories every day of children fighting for an education. The basic right to education is under attack around the world.
We need change now and I need your help to achieve it.
You can help me and girls and boys across the world. We are asking the United Nations General Assembly to fund new teachers, schools, books and recommit to getting every girl and boy in school by December 2015.
This July 12th is my 16th birthday and I am personally delivering this petition to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
I became a victim of terrorism after I spoke out in favour of education of girls. These innocent girls killed in Pakistan have nothing to do with politics and only wanted to empower themselves through education.
If we want to bring change, if we want progress, if we want development, if we want the education of girls, we should be united. We should not wait. We should do it now.
Go sign the petition. I did. Take the 30 seconds and get it done.
5 comments
July 10, 2013 at 6:24 am
john zande
Sickening that a child anywhere has to fight like this. Brave girl. A fan, I am.
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July 11, 2013 at 7:22 am
frag111out
We saw AQI targeting children, parents and teachers in Iraq as late as the last time I was there, 2006. Schools aren’t enough, the UN needs to persuade the government to provide meaningful and effective security for the school and deterrent initiatives to dissuade extremists from attacking the children, parents and teachers at locations away from the school.
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July 11, 2013 at 6:58 pm
The Arbourist
@frag111out
It is a mutl faceted problem, I do agree. The problem of security lies at the base of many of the problems children like Malala face.
Changing societies is often a brutally slow process as the regressive ways/attitudes have remarkable staying power.
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July 11, 2013 at 7:24 pm
frag111out
You are correct, increasing security would only be a tissue to the runny nose. I am observing with interest the continuing unrest in Egypt as a secularized citizenry struggles against the remnants of a religiously ultra-conservative government; the ultra-conservative group being created out of a perceived threat from secularization and an actual threat of exploitation many decades ago.
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July 14, 2013 at 9:21 am
RAGESH BALAN
AFTER WASIM AKRAM ( SEAM BOWLER )OF PAKISTAN , I AM A FAN OF MALALA YOUSUFZAI OF PAKISTAN. – I FEEL PROUD OF YOU . BE BRAVE AND ALWAYS ENCOURAGE OTHERS FOR THEIR STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS . i.e. RIGHT TO EDUCATION. – RAGESH BALAN FROM HINDUSTAN.
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