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Abuja: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai condemned China's treatment of her fellow peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo following his death of liver cancer in custody last week.

Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" after he helped write a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping political reforms in China.

Liu's incarceration meant he was unable to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and he became the second winner of it to die in state custody, the first being Carl von Ossietzky in Germany in 1938. Liu's wife Liu Xia remains under effective house arrest.

"I condemn any government who denies people's freedom," Yousafzai, 20, a Pakistani education activist who came to prominence when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head in 2012, told Reuters at a school in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

"I'm hoping that people will learn from what he (Liu) did and join together and fight for freedom, fight for people's rights and fight for equality," she said.

Yousafzai's trip to Nigeria was aimed at raising awareness of education problems in Africa's most populous country where over 10.5 million children are out of school, more than anywhere else in the world.

The issue is felt more severely in the mainly Muslim north. The south has over the decades seen greater investment and a system of schools started by Christian pastors affiliated with British colonists.

Nigeria needs to "increase spending on education and they need to make it public, the rate of spending planned and how much they're spending," said Yousafzai. Since her first trip to Nigeria three years ago, the proportion of the budget allocated to education has dropped from above 10 percent to around 6 percent, she said.

The eight-year Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram, whose name roughly means "Western education is forbidden," has compounded problems with education in Nigeria's north.

The militants have destroyed hundreds of schools and uprooted millions, forcing them into refugee camps which often lack the most basic necessities, let alone decent schooling.

On Monday, Malala called on Nigeria's acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, to call a state of emergency for the country's education.

"Nigeria in the north has been suffering through conflicts as well and extremism," she said.

"So it is important in that sense as well that they prioritise education in order to protect the future."

(Reporting by Paul Carsten; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Abuja: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai condemned China's treatment of her fellow peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo following his death of liver cancer in custody last week. Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" after he helped write a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping political reforms in China.

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Malala Fund | Working for a world where all girls can learn and lead

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Founded by student and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, Malala Fund invests in girls’ education programmes to help girls go to school and reach their full potential.

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An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Malala Yousafzai.

The Nasa astronomer who discovered it five years ago said she chose the name to honour the 17-year-old Nobel Prize winner.

Dr Amy Mainzer, who works at the space agency's jet propulsion laboratory in California, said she was inspired by a colleague who pointed out that of the many named asteroids, few honoured the contributions of women and even fewer were from ethnic minorities.

"(Dr Carrie Nugent) and I read about Malala's amazing story and thought that if anyone deserves to have an asteroid named after them, she does," Dr Mainzer added.

Malala, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, was shot in the head in an attempted assassination attempt by the Pakistani Taliban on a school bus in 2012.

She was targeted for her campaign against the extremist group's crackdown on girls' education, following years of blogging and interviews.

After emergency medical treatment in the UK, Malala took the issue to the United Nations and beyond and now heads a charity supporting education for girls worldwide.

Dr Mainzer said she hoped the asteroid's name would remind young people that "science and engineering are for everyone".

"We desperately need the brainpower of all smart people to solve some of humanity's most difficult problems, and we can't afford to reject half the population's," she wrote.

The scientist discovered Asteroid 316201 on 23 June 2010 and has the right to name it under International Astronomical Union rules.

The black rock is four kilometres wide and orbits the sun every five-and-a-half years as part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Malala Yousafzai. The Nasa astronomer who discovered it five years ago said she chose the name to honour the 17-year-old Nobel Prize winner.

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Malala Day is being celebrated today across the world commemorating Malala Yousafzai's 20th birthday.

July 12 th has been declared as Malala Day by the United Nations as it commemorates not only young activist's birthday, but also the day she delivered a powerful speech at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. It was her first public speech since being targeted by the Taliban for her commitment to education.

Malala's life, which is replete with struggle for the advocacy of women's rights in education, took a drastic turn when on October 2012, she was attacked by Taliban gunmen in Swat. Due to being in critical condition, she was rushed to the United Kingdom for treatment.

The Nobel Prize laureate has decided to celebrate this birthday with the refugee girls living in conflict areas. In this regard, she departed on Tuesday for Middle East along with her father Ziauddin Yousafzai to offer support and pledge to stand for women rights.

Malala also plans to visit Africa and Latin America areas to empower the girls residing in those countries.

Yousafzai recently graduated school and has been offered a place to study at Oxford University.

To date, Malala has received over 40 awards and honors for her bravery and activism, including an honorary doctorate from the University of King's College in 2014 and a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (for the audio book I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World) in 2015.

She also opened an all-girls school for Syrian refugees calling on leaders from around the world to provide "books not bullets."

In April 2017 Malala became a UN Messenger of Peace.

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Malala Day: The world celebrates Malala's 20th birthday

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Malala Day is being celebrated today across the world commemorating Malala Yousafzai's 20th birthday. July 12 th has been declared as Malala Day by the United Nations as it commemorates not only young activist's birthday, but also the day she delivered a powerful speech at the UN to call for worldwide access to education.

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Malala to mark 20th birthday with displaced girls

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The iconic young activist plans to visit Middle East, Africa and Latin America this summer

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On March 8 every year, International Women's Day is celebrated to felicitate women and their achievements. Women have come a long way in their struggle for equality, but there is still a long distance to cover. This year, the theme for Women's Day is 'Be Bold For Change.' And to encourage women to be bolder, stronger and more powerful in all spheres of life, we have 15 inspiring Women's Day quotes. These powerful statements, made by women and for women, will inspire you to celebrate women in all their glory. Have a look:

1. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." - Gloria Steinem

2. "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." - Malala Yousafzai

3. "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher

4. "For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious - or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution." -Naomi Wolf

5. "At the end of the day, don't forget that you are a person, don't forget you are a mother, don't forget you are a wife, don't forget you are a daughter." - Indra Nooyi

6. "The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all." -Aung San Suu Kyi

7. "Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are." - Ellen DeGeneres

8. "Don't let anyone tell you you're weak because you're a woman." - Mary Kom

9. "Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together." - Madhuri Dixit

10. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama

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This year, the theme for Women's Day is 'Be Bold For Change.' And to encourage women to be bolder, stronger and more powerful in all spheres of life, we have 15 inspiring Women's Day quotes. These powerful statements, made by women and for women, will inspire you to celebrate women in all their glory.

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Toronto: Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai was bestowed honorary Canadian citizenship on Wednesday.

Yousafzai was greeted on the steps of the Centre Block by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as a parade of dignitaries, cabinet ministers and diplomats inside the rotunda beneath the Peace Tower, The Toronto Star reported.

Moments later, Trudeau presented her with a certificate documenting her as an honorary Canadian, making her the sixth and youngest ever person to receive the honour.

"It is not just an honorary citizenship of Canada; it is also being Canada's friend, and I warmly accept it," Yousafzai told the gathering afterward.

"I want to thank Canada for its passion for girls' education, for its passion for humanity, for refugees, and for standing up for women's rights, and for peace.

"You are a true example to the world of what it means to stand up for humanity, and I'm hopeful you will inspire many more countries and many more leaders to follow your footsteps," she said.

At the ceremony, Trudeau said that Malala's story was inspirational.

"All the violence you survived at the hands of the Taliban didn't deter you as it would have so many others," Trudeau told the ceremony. "You stood even stronger in the face of oppression; your passion for justice only intensified," he added.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Toronto: Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai was bestowed honorary Canadian citizenship on Wednesday. Yousafzai was greeted on the steps of the Centre Block by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as a parade of dignitaries, cabinet ministers and diplomats inside the rotunda beneath the Peace Tower, The Toronto Star reported.

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She's a global education advocate. She's survived an attack on her life. She's a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And on Wednesday, she turns 20.

Malala Yousafzai has inspired a generation to advocate for girls to have adequate, safe access to education. In honor of her birthday, here's a look at five of the most powerful ways she's done it.

1. Putting her pen to paper

At the age of 11, Malala began anonymously blogging for BBC Urdu. She gave vivid accounts of what it was like attending school as a girl in the Swat district of Pakistan. Her first post read, in part:
On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you.' I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
She did not stay anonymous for long. At the age of 12, she was featured in a vivid New York Times documentary about her school being shut down by the Taliban.

2. Being a survivor

On Oct. 9, 2012, a lone member of the Taliban entered Malala's school bus and shot her in the head. Malala nearly died. She underwent surgery, was transferred to the United Kingdom and spent months in the hospital before coming out stronger than before.

3. Creating the Malala Fund

Shortly after the attack, Malala and her father put the wheels into motion to establish the Malala Fund, which aims to help support education for children across the world. Malala herself announced the fund in a February 2013 video saying, "This is a second life, this is a new life. And I want to serve."

4. Delivering a stirring Nobel Peace Prize speech

On Dec. 10, 2014, Malala spoke after receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest person to ever be awarded the honor. She took the opportunity to speak not about herself, but about the girls around world she represents.

"I am Malala," she said. "I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice. It is the voice of 66 million girls."

5. Never calling it quits

Even though the United Nations declared her birthday to be "Malala Day," she has never let the day be about her. She uses her position as a public figure -- especially on July 12 -- to raise awareness about girls' education. After finishing high school and joining Twitter last week, Malala announced that she will be traveling to continue her advocacy work this week.

Next week, I will be back on my #GirlPowerTrip to meet girls in Middle East, Africa & Latin America. 4/
- Malala (@Malala) July 7, 2017

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She's a global education advocate. She's survived an attack on her life. She's a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And on Wednesday, she turns 20. Malala Yousafzai has inspired a generation to advocate for girls to have adequate, safe access to education. In honor of her birthday, here's a look at five of the most powerful ways she's done it.

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There are no Superheroes, Just Us: My Journey with Malala - Shiza Shahid at TEDxMidAtlantic

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Shiza Shahid helped Taliban gunshot victim Malala Yousafzai return to school, and is the co-founder and director of the Malala Fund. The fund supports education innovators and activists across the world. Shahid has supported Malala's work since 2009, when she mentored Malala and others in a summer retreat in Pakistan to raise awareness about the Taliban's attack on female education.

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My Daughter, Malala | Ziauddin Yousafzai | TED Talks

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Marie Arana is the author of the memoir "American Chica" and the biography "Bolivar: American Liberator." She was also a scriptwriter for the recently released film about education in the Third World, "Girl Rising."

Ask social scientists how to end global poverty, and they will tell you: Educate girls. Capture them in that fleeting window between the ages of 10 and 14, give them an education, and watch a community change: Per capita income goes up, infant mortality goes down, the rate of economic growth increases, the rate of HIV/AIDS infection falls. Child marriage becomes less common, as does child labor. Educated mothers tend to educate their children. They tend to be more frugal with family money. Last year, the World Bank reckoned that Kenya's illiterate girls, if educated, could boost that country's economy by $27 billion in the course of a lifetime.

Whether an emerging nation likes it or not, its girls are its greatest resource. Educating them, as economist Lawrence Summers once said, "may be the single highest-return investment available in the developing world."

Nowhere is that lesson more evident than in the story of Malala Yousafzai, a Pashtun girl from Pakistan's Swat Valley who was born of an illiterate mother, grew up in her father's school, read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" by age 11 and has a gift for stirring oratory.

And nowhere did that lesson go more rebuffed than in the verdant Swat Valley, where hard-line jihadists swept out of the mountains, terrorized villages and radicalized boys, and where - one muggy day last October - a Taliban fighter leapt onto a school bus, shouted, "Who is Malala?" and shot her point-blank in the head for speaking out about her God-given right to attend school.

Malala tells of that life-shattering moment in a riveting memoir, "I Am Malala," published this past week even as she was being cited as a possible candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-written with Christina Lamb, a veteran British journalist who has an evident passion for Pakistan and can render its complicated history with pristine clarity, this is a book that should be read not only for its vivid drama but for its urgent message about the untapped power of girls.

The story begins with Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the son of an imam (a preacher of Islam), who was instilled from boyhood with a deep love of learning, an unwavering sense of justice and a commitment to speak out in defense of both. Like Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Ziauddin was convinced that aside from the sword and the pen, there is an even greater power - that of women - and so, when his firstborn turned out to be a bright, inquisitive daughter, he raised her with all the attention he lavished on his sons.

Ziauddin's greatest ambition, which he achieved as a relatively young teacher, was to establish a school where children could be raised with a keen sense of their human potential. As a Pashtun, he came from a tribe that had migrated from Kabul and settled on the lush but war-weary frontier that separates Pakistan from Afghanistan; as a Yousafzai, he was the proud inheritor of a rich legacy that could be traced to the Timurid court of the 16th century. But he was also a poor man with high ambitions and not a cent to his name.

Malala was born in 1997, as her father was struggling to found his school against a sea of troubles: a deeply corrupt government official to whom he refused to pay bribes; a mufti who lived across the way and objected to the education of girls, a practice he denounced as haram, or offensive to Islam; and the vicissitudes of a fierce jihad, visited upon them from time to time in Taliban raids that evolved from harsh rhetoric to outright killings. By the time Malala was 10 and the top student in her father's surprisingly flourishing school, radical Talibs had penetrated the valley all the way to the capital of Islamabad and were beheading Pakistani police, holding their severed heads high on the roadsides.

"Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books," Malala recounts, and "it seemed to us that the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires. They appeared in groups, armed with knives and Kalashnikovs. . . . These were strange-looking men with long straggly hair and beards and camouflage vests over their shalwar kamiz, which they wore with the trousers well above the ankle. They had jogging shoes or cheap plastic sandals on their feet, and sometimes stockings over their heads with holes for their eyes, and they blew their noses dirtily into the ends of their turbans."

That was when the school bombings began and Maulana Fazlullah, a young extremist who had once operated the pulleys at a river crossing, became known as the Radio Mullah, a direct arm of the Taliban, installing a systematic rule of terror over the Swat Valley. Fazlullah announced the closing of girls' schools; he lauded the killing of a female dancer; his goons killed a teacher for refusing to pull his trousers above the ankle the way the Taliban members wore theirs. "Nowhere in Islam is this required," the teacher had cried out in his defense.

"They hanged him," Malala relates dryly, "and then they shot his father."

But for all the terror around them, Malala and her family were hardly cowed into submission. Ziauddin continued to rail at his country's Talibanization in government offices, to the army, to anyone who would listen, gaining a name throughout Swat for his rectitude and courage. And although Malala learned to go to school with her books hidden under her shawl, she continued to study and excel, eventually giving public speeches on behalf of education that her father would help write. By 12, even as she pored over "Anna Karenina" and the novels of Jane Austen, she was writing a BBC blog about her experiences under the pen name Gul Makai.

When, in 2009, the family was forced to abandon the increasingly violent border area in "the biggest exodus in Pashtun history," the Yousafzais made their way to Peshawar, where Malala did radio interviews, met Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, turned 13 and continued to speak out for girls' education. Passing through Abbottabad as they made their escape, the family could not have imagined that Osama bin Laden himself had found refuge there. Finally winding their way home, they discovered that their beloved school - in a metaphor for their own defiance - had become a holdout against the Taliban for the Pakistani army.

We know how this story ends, with a 15-year-old child taking a bullet for a whole generation. It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perhaps the diary of Anne Frank. With the essential difference that we lost that girl, and by some miracle, we still have this one. Disfigured beyond recognition by her assailant's gun, Malala was rushed to Peshawar, then Rawalpindi and finally to Birmingham, England, where doctors reconstructed her damaged skull and knit back the shattered face. But her smile would never be quite the same.

Resolute, Malala has never hidden that face - not when the Taliban insisted on it, and not when she emerged from her battle for survival to stand before the members of the United Nations in July and deliver her message yet again, a little louder.

"There is good news coming from the U.K.," the head of military operations in Swat had told Malala's desperate parents as they awaited word of their child's condition. "We are very happy our daughter has survived."

"Our," Malala points out, because she had become the daughter of a nation.

But she is ours, too, because she stands for the universal possibility of a little girl.

Marie Arana is the author of the memoir "American Chica" and the biography "Bolivar: American Liberator." She was also a scriptwriter for the recently released film about education in the Third World, "Girl Rising."

I AM MALALA

The Girl Who Stood Up for Education

and Was Shot by the Taliban

By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

Little, Brown. 327 pp. $26

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Book review: 'I Am Malala' by Malala Yousafzai

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Marie Arana is the author of the memoir "American Chica" and the biography "Bolivar: American Liberator." She was also a scriptwriter for the recently released film about education in the Third World, "Girl Rising." Ask social scientists how to end global poverty, and they will tell you: Educate girls.