Malala to make UN speech in July
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:48 am
Malala Yousafzai, the pakistani teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, will make her first public speech on her 16th birthday in New York, the office of Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown announced on Friday.
She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his capacity as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
Malala was shot at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman as her school bus traveled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9 last year, She was flown to Britain for surgery on her head injuries and, once she had recovered sufficiently, returned to school in Birmingham, central England last month.
And while I am very pleased that she has a better life now than before. I can not help but feel sad for many girls who are still oppressed by Taliban.
And ironically, the U.S has called her to speak at the U.N, a great privilege and honor, no doubt. I wonder if they thought about doing the same for the 700 children they killed with their drone strikes. You know. Malala got shot by Taliban, she received international fame...if she had fallen victim to an american drone strike, ah well she would have been stamped "collateral damage", buried in an unmarked grave and you and the world would have never known or cared.
She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his capacity as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
Malala was shot at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman as her school bus traveled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9 last year, She was flown to Britain for surgery on her head injuries and, once she had recovered sufficiently, returned to school in Birmingham, central England last month.
And while I am very pleased that she has a better life now than before. I can not help but feel sad for many girls who are still oppressed by Taliban.
And ironically, the U.S has called her to speak at the U.N, a great privilege and honor, no doubt. I wonder if they thought about doing the same for the 700 children they killed with their drone strikes. You know. Malala got shot by Taliban, she received international fame...if she had fallen victim to an american drone strike, ah well she would have been stamped "collateral damage", buried in an unmarked grave and you and the world would have never known or cared.