08/10/2013 Newsround


08/10/2013

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Hello there, Ricky here with a very special edition of Newsround. We're

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bringing you the remarkable story of Malala Yousafzai - the girl whose

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A year ago this week, an unknown 15-year-old girl in Pakistan boarded

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her school bus. It had been an ordinary day for Malala Yousufzai,

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but that afternoon, she was nearly killed on her journey home. Her

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story has now made her one of the most famous schoolgirls in the

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On October 9, 2012, Malala Yousufzai was travelling home from school

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On October 9, 2012, Malala Yousufzai she was shot. Her crime: Speaking up

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for the rights of girls to have she was shot. Her crime: Speaking up

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education. Malala grew up in the Swat Valley. It's a remote and

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traditional part of the country Swat Valley. It's a remote and

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a proud history of education. When she was ten the area was taken over

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by the Taliban, an armed group with extreme views about Islam and how

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wanted to stop education for girls. Muslims should live. The Taliban

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wanted to stop education for girls. blog and spoke out for the rights of

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around the world by her first name her school bus they asked "Who

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around the world by her first name It is an incredible story and Nell

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lives. How is she getting on now? She's doing really well. For someone

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like me who's been following her story very closely over the last

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meet her. She's nominated for a easy to forget that she's just a

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I know three things... I was shot by the Taliban for the reason of going

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to school and for my familiar pain -- campaign and especially girls in

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swat said we will continue our campaign for our education. The

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Taliban are afraid of the power campaign for our education. The

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women. They say that if a woman campaign for our education. The

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to school, if she learns, if she powerful p than men even. I believe

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in equality. Malala's campaign nearly cost her life. Since then,

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it's been an incredible 12 months. She's attracted lots of attention

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campaigning more than ever for girls' education. But it's too

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dangerous for her to return to Birmingham. And he goes to school.

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How do you be Malala, but also the face of this strong campaign? It's

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easy. I am what I am. I am Malala. I'm living a normal life. I go to

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market. I go out to parks and enjoy my life, but on the side, I have to

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on different occasions and to speak be a mature woman as well to speak

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on different occasions and to speak up for children's rights and to

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speak up for women's rights. I think playing cricket and I also like

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badminton a lot. I like to fight with my brothers. This is not a

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telling me to do it. I'm doing it girls to be stopped from going to

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school. I want every child in India, girls to be stopped from going to

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continues to campaign to raise girls to be stopped from going to

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awareness for the struggle for education that millions of children

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around the world go through and education that millions of children

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children weren't in school and well over half of those were girls. Ten

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years later, things had improved, but there are still 66 million kids

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out of school around the world. There were still four million more

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girls than boys missing out. Back in 2000, all 189 countries in the

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United Nations signed a plan to 2000, all 189 countries in the

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sure by 2015 all children were able to go to primary school. Charities

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and governments have been working towards this, but time is running

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out to achieve the goal. One of towards this, but time is running

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people trying to get more girls towards this, but time is running

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school is Sarah Brown, the wife towards this, but time is running

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former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. There are girls out of

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school in countries like Nigeria, five million girls, more than five

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million girls are out of school there. Countries like Pakistan,

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million girls are out of school than three million girls out of

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school. In India, Bangladesh, girls are kept at home because their

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education is not valued. People believe they shouldn't go to school.

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Malala's story has been to galvanise the world to action, to hear what's

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happening through what happened the world to action, to hear what's

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one girl, through her bravery, first of all, in speaking up for girls'

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education and the tragedy of her Sarah says there's a lot more to do

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to get all children into primary school by 2015. Things aren't on

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track at the moment. But world leaders are doing more to make it

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happen and Malala's campaign has already inspired lots of children to

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incredible story. Thank you. We already inspired lots of children to

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loads more on that story on the website. I'm back at 6. 50pm. See

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