In 2012, Malala Yousafzai was brutally shot three times by Pakistani Taliban members  as she rode a bus home from school. They wanted to intimidate girls and make them stay home instead of get an education. A Pakistani court has now sentenced those 10 men to life in prison (25 years, which is life in […]

Education

Let Girls Learn officially launched at a special presentation at The White House on Tuesday. Let Girls Learn is a global effort to promote education for girls and women because an approximate 62 million of us have had our education challenged. President and First Lady Michelle Obama stood with the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the […]

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On Monday, The All Pakistan Private Schools Federation (AAPSF) revolted against the 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai with orchestrated press conferences, seminars and marches under the name of “I Am Not Malala,” an angry-spin on “I Am Malala” slogan that was meant to encourage the improvement of women’s and children’s rights worldwide, and […]

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has been a global inspiration ever since she was attacked by the Taliban in 2012 after speaking out against their attempts to deny women education, and now the 17-year-old has become the youngest person to ever be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai will share the 95th annual award with Indian […]

Michelle Obama is calling on young women in the U.S. to take their education a little more seriously. Kids in the United States are often depicted viewing school as an unbearable daily chore, but education is not a basic right everywhere in the world. In her open letter to Seventeen magazine, the first lady asked […]

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai is using her global influence to continue spreading awareness on the Nigerian schoolgirls still held in captivity  by terrorist group Boko Haram. Although 60 of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April managed to escape Boko Haram captors, there are more than 200 schoolgirls still in captivity and Malala wants to inspire optimism for the […]

Glamour’s Women Of The Year Awards took place earlier this week and Lada Gaga was among the 12 women honored (along with Kerry Washington, Malala Yousafzai, Gabby Giffords, Christy Turlington Burns and Melinda Gates). In Gaga’s epic acceptance speech, she said, “If I could forfeit my Glamour cover, I would give it to Malala.” Malala […]

Sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai went to the White House to meet with President Obama, Michelle Obama and Malia in the Oval Office. This young activist was shot in the head by the Taliban as she protested a ban on girls’ education a year ago. As the youngest contender for a Nobel Peace Prize, Yousafzai […]