Malala's Life Today
Malala and her family live in a house in Birmingham, England. Her dad was offered a job at a local Pakistani collage. In April Malala returned to her studies at an only girls high school her and favourite subject is physics. She regularly skypes her friends in Pakistan (the other two girls injured in the attack, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz.) The assassination attempt had a huge affect on the support for Malala. The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown launched a UN petition in support of what Malala fought for. using the slogan "I am Malala" the petitions main demand was that no child should be left out of school by 2015. The petition had three demands which were:
-We call on Pakistan to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child.
-We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls.
-We call on international organisations to ensure the world 61 million out of school children are in education by the end of 2015.
This petition lead to Pakistan's first right to Education Bill. In 29th April 2013 issue of Time magazine, Malala was featured on the magazine's front cover as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was the winner of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and she was nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. She was the youngest person (when she was 16) to ever be nominated for it, but unfortunately she didn't win. On July on her 16th birthday she gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly about every child around the globe having the right to have an education. After the speech she received an invitation from the queen of England to visit Buckingham palace. In September 2013 she officially opened the Library of Birmingham. On February 2014 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize again and for the Worlds Children's prize in Sweden. An estimated 57 million school age children receive no education. This fall, Malala is launching the Malala Fund to help girls fight for their right to education. For Malala one of the saddest memories of her experience is that her native country which she wants to go back to one day is the biggest threat to her. But those threats will never stop her. She told the UN: "They thought the bullets would silence me, but they failed. Out of that silence, came thousands of voices."
-We call on Pakistan to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child.
-We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls.
-We call on international organisations to ensure the world 61 million out of school children are in education by the end of 2015.
This petition lead to Pakistan's first right to Education Bill. In 29th April 2013 issue of Time magazine, Malala was featured on the magazine's front cover as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was the winner of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and she was nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. She was the youngest person (when she was 16) to ever be nominated for it, but unfortunately she didn't win. On July on her 16th birthday she gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly about every child around the globe having the right to have an education. After the speech she received an invitation from the queen of England to visit Buckingham palace. In September 2013 she officially opened the Library of Birmingham. On February 2014 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize again and for the Worlds Children's prize in Sweden. An estimated 57 million school age children receive no education. This fall, Malala is launching the Malala Fund to help girls fight for their right to education. For Malala one of the saddest memories of her experience is that her native country which she wants to go back to one day is the biggest threat to her. But those threats will never stop her. She told the UN: "They thought the bullets would silence me, but they failed. Out of that silence, came thousands of voices."