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Malala, Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Taking a Stand for Education … and Equality
In this exclusive, unedited interview from October 10, 2013, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, author of I am Malala, remembers the Taliban’s rise to power in her Pakistani hometown and discusses her efforts to campaign for equal access to education for girls.
She shot to fame after surviving a gunshot wound to her head by Taliban forces, who tried to silence the campaigner for girls’ education. Thanks to Julie for the reminder of this amazing young girl.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Also on Malala’s 17th birthday, in June of this year, she flew to Nigeria to add her voice to the many outraged over the kidnapping of nearly 280 Nigerian school girls in April by a vicious militant group.
Now four months later, we learn approximately 60 of the girls have managed to escape but the rest remain missing. The world has mostly moved on, distracted by such events as wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the downing of a Malaysian jetliner and the immigration crisis at the U.S. border.
Here she meets with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in her campaign to help release the 219 Nigerian schoolgirls still missing since their April abduction at the hands of Islamist militants.
The Pakistani teenager who turned seventeen on Saturday, July 13th, said it was her birthday wish to see them return home and said Jonathan promised to do all he could to accomplish it at that end. Malala met with the parents of some of the missing girls in Abuja and told them she regarded their daughters as her sisters and would stand up on their behalf.
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