The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban will scratch her 16th birthday by addressing the United Nations in New York. Malala Yousafzai will advocate the world to give each child an education.
Her outstanding recuperation has seen her turn out to be a high profile campaigner with her face being acknowledged all over the world. Three million people have already signed a petition which Malala Yousafzai will present to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
In front of her primary major public dialogue the teen said: “This is an opportunity for every young person on the planet to get together and tell the world: ‘We will get our education, be it at home, in school or any place’.”
The schoolgirl was shot by the Taliban in 2012 while on her way to school in Swat Valley. Malala Yousafzai was transferred to Birmingham in the UK and undergoes widespread surgery to reconstruct her skull at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Young people from 80 different countries have indoors in New York to hear Malala’s speech and to hold up her grounds. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said: “In far too many places, students like Malala Yousafzai and their teachers are threatened, assaulted, even killed. Through hate-filled actions, extremists have shown what frightens them the most: a girl with a book.”
The occasion marks Malala Yousafzai Day and has been organized by former prime minister Gordon Brown, now the UN Special Envoy for International Education. “This frail young girl who was seriously injured has become such a powerful symbol not just for the girls’ right to education, but for the demand that we do something about it immediately,” Mr Brown told CBS News. “There will be no compromise with any religious extremist who says girls should not go to school or stop going to school at 10.”
Courtesy: Tom Parmenter, sky news
