15th Annual Committee on Teaching About the United Nations Conference, 31 January 2014 – United Nations, NY

“I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I’m afraid of no one.”

Malala Yousafzai became an international symbol of the fight for girls’ education after she was shot in 2012 for opposing Taliban restrictions on female education in her home country of Pakistan. In 2009, Malala had begun writing a blog under a pseudonym about the increasing military activity in her home town and about fears that her school would be attacked. After her identity was revealed, Malala and her father Ziauddin continued to speak out for the right to education.

Malala Yousafzai