Send Books Not Guns - Malala Yousafzai pleaded with the UN
New York: With Balanced maturity that belied his tender years, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for advocating girls' education was by world leaders and called for books not guns. "Instead of sending weapons, instead of sending tanks to Afghanistan and all countries that suffer from terrorism, send books," she pleaded. "Instead of sending tanks send pens," she urged as she took part in the first anniversary of the Global Education First initiative at the UN in New York. In October last year, Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman as she was on her way to school in his usual bus in an attack that drew condemnation worldwide.
Seriously injured and close to death, the Pakistani schoolgirl was flown to Britain for surgery. She returned to school in England last March after recovering from his injuries. Now it has become a global advocate for the right of all children, and especially girls, to have a good education. "Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers," Malala argued at an event attended by Nobel Peace Desmond Tutu, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Josipovic. According to the United Nations, some 57 million children around the world, the age of the primary school are deprived of education, and 52 percent of them are girls. "This is my dream to see all children to be educated," said Malala collection, building on the themes of one of his heroes, Martin Luther King.
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