Saturday, 13 July 2013

Malala celebrates 16th birthday with U.N. education appeal

UNITED NATIONS: In her first speech since the Taliban in Pakistan tried to kill her for advocating education for girls, Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 16thbirthday on Friday at the United Nations, appealing forcompulsory free schooling for all children.Wearing a pink head scarf, Yousafzai told U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and nearly 1,000 students from around the world attending a Youth Assembly at U.N. headquartersin New York that education was the only way to improve lives."Let us pick

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