Malala..the cost of education for girls

[anisa]

It's sad and scary that different extremes for women can exist in the same country.

in cities not far from where she is from, girls are encouraged and expected to go to college. they live on campus, have complete freedom to study what they want, how they want, and when they want. they are encouraged to complete masters degrees. they are encouraged to be professionals and be practising Doctors, Lawyers etc. The tradition of women obtaining higher levels of education goes back generations in that part of the world.

yet the control freaks and misguided doofuses in some dark corners still think it's fun to push around little girls.

[Natalka]

Podcast from yesterday's CBC radio's The Current

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malala-...k-up-1.1929982

[Darth Penguin]

Malala was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...I'll try to find a link which works...

http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows...Package=139575

[Natalka]

Disappointed she didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize....

[trishka]

Disappointed she didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize....

Me too.

[trishka]

Malala Yousafzai to be named honorary Canadian citizen
Malala Yousafzai, an advocate for girls' education and the target of a Taliban assassination attempt, will be made an honorary Canadian citizen.

A senior government source confirms that Wednesday's throne speech will confer the honour on the 16-year-old international figure.

Yousafzai was shot in the head in her native Pakistan by the Taliban in October, 2012 while she was on a bus going home from school.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Yousafzai in New York on Sept. 26 where she discussed her efforts to promote education for women and girls.

Harper also invited her to visit Canada.

Yousafzai, who now lives in England with her family, was the youngest ever nominee last week for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was won by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/malala-...izen-1.1498934

[Natalka]

Just heard that this morning; it's awesome!

[Patty Smyth]

I disagree with her being made an honorary citizen.

She has sadly become a political pawn all over the world.

[Darth Penguin]

Malala shooting suspects detained

"The group involved in the attack on Malala Yousafzai has been arrested," army spokesman Gen Asim Bajwa told a news conference on Friday. He said 10 members of a faction called "Shura", which the army says is part of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP), had been arrested in a joint operation with Pakistan's army, police and intelligence services.
The men are being interrogated and will face an anti-terrorism court soon, he said.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad notes that the army statement made no mention of Ataullah Khan, a 23-year-old militant who had previously been accused of shooting Malala.

[Natalka]

Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO (Reuters) - Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner by far.



Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

"The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism," said Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Satyarthi, who gave up a career as an electrical engineer in 1980 to campaign against child labor, has headed various forms of peaceful protests and demonstrations, focusing on the exploitation of children for financial gain.

The prize, worth about $1.1 million, will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the award in his 1895 will.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pakistani-...090729703.html

[madchives]

how terrific that malala shares the nobel prize with satyarthi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Satyarthi

[SharonMe]

OK, I didn't know Nobel was named after the person who founded the Nobel prize.
He was the inventor of dynamite whose obituary was written erroneously when his brother passed away and was mistaken for him. The headlines was "The merchant of death is dead". He decided to found the Nobel prize in hopes of leaving a better obit.
I'm happy for Malala and glad to see her survive and the footnote she leaves is more than being a victim of the taliban. Every accolade given to her is more power to what is right in the world.

[Natalka]

Pakistan court jails 10 for Malala Yousafzai attack

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced 10 men to life in prison on Thursday for the 2012 attack on teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai

Authorities said the defendants were all members of the Pakistani Taliban

Ataullah Khan, the militant police described as the chief suspect in the shooting, was not among the 10 men convicted on Thursday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...ushpmg00000003

[Darth Penguin]

Malala celebrates exam results

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to win the Nobel peace prize, has another reason to celebrate after posting a string of top grades in her GCSEs, a set of important exams faced by British teenagers.
Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai said on Twitter on Friday his 18-year-old daughter had achieved six A+s and four As, placing her in the top tier of school kids to take the exam.


After rising to global fame as an education activist after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan in 2012, her family resettled in Birmingham in Britain.
Last year she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yousafzai, whose own education was disrupted when she was attacked and moved to Britain for rehabilitation, sat her exams two years after most British teenagers take them.
Pakistani media praised her good results. “Nothing that Malala Yousafzai achieves seems startling any more but she continues to make Pakistan proud,” said the Express Tribune, an English-language Pakistani newspaper.

[Darth Penguin]

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34016407

Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, took to Twitter to list Malala's grades which include A*s in GCSE and iGCSE maths.

....snip...


The 18-year-old, who now attends Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, did particularly well in the sciences, with top A* grades in biology, chemistry and physics - as well as in religious studies.
She also scored As in history, geography, English language and English literature.