Efforts to Retrieve Women's Rights
How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to an Education
Ziauddin Yousafzai took his daughter, an eleven-year old Malala Yousafzai to the capital of Peshawar for an event at the city's press club to fight against the attacks on girls' schools. It was at this event that she appeared to the public for the first time in her life. Taking up a pseudonym to protect herself, she gave a speech of " How Dare the Taliban take away My Basic Right to an Education " in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September 2008.
Diary of a Pakistani girl
The Taliban banned girls from attending school.
Malala's father had been asked by BBC Urdu online if any of his students would want to write about their lives under the Taliban. One girl volunteered, but her father didn't allow her to do so. Out of fear of taking up a pseudonym as Gul Makai, Malala Yousafzai handwrote notes and passed them on to a reporter, who would scan and e-mail them for a BBC Urdu blog as diaries of her everyday life. |
"Our annual exams are due after the vacations but this will only be possible if the Taleban allow girls to go to school. We were told to prepare certain chapters for the exam but I do not feel like studying."
January 2009
"I have a new dream … I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises...
July 2009
"My purpose is to serve humanity."
December 2009
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Malala Yousafzai's documentary film
Class Dismissed- The Death of Female Education
Go To Full Documentary Fim
http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000001835296/class-dismissed-malala-yousafzais-story.html |
Adam B. Ellick, a New York Times reporter made two documentaries about Malala's story that helped bring her brave campaign to the world, transforming her into a public figure.
" Malala was a brave young girl, advocating for a better future for all girls in her country, but was this really her fight to take so public a stance in such a dangerous environment? Or was she thrust into the limelight by adults captivated by the power of a child staring down the Taliban? " |