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Today, Malala Day, celebrates not only one youth’s fight for girls’ education but also the power of youth movements all over the world.
Malala Yousafzai will celebrate her 16th birthday at the U.N., almost nine months after suffering a gunshot wound to the head by the Taliban in response to her advocacy in Pakistan for girls’ education. Today, she is the keynote speaker at the U.N. for global education advocacy.
Her speech will emphasise how education is denied to millions of children. Most at this age are asking for material goods, such as an iPad or a car when they get their license. But Malala is fighting for children’s education. Many young people will be attending to hear her speech, so she will be trying to drive the message home to start and maintain education in other countries. She’ll share her story and experiences, as well as interview U.N. Special Envoy for Education, Gordon Brown, about what world leaders can do.
She speaks for the 57 million children who don’t have access to education. She has created a site where people can sign a digital petition to help her mission and show visible, tangible support for the cause. A letter, pre-composed to the Secretary-General, can be found here.
An excerpt from the petition reads:
Side by side with Malala, we demand that at the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders agree to fund the new teachers, schools and books we need — and to end child labour, child marriage and child trafficking — so that by December 2015 we meet the Millennium Development goal promise that every boy and girl be at school.
We must be united in this fight, and we must act now. Thank you for standing with us.
Read more of her story here: http://ow.ly/mRN6a
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