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Teen Activists for Children's Rights in Education

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Imagine being forced out of school because of your gender, trying to stand up for that, and then getting shot in the head by a Taliban (terrorist). By some miracle the bullet hits your skull, bounces off your cheek, and settles into your shoulder. Would you continue the journey towards your goal, or would you remain soundless? One teen activist who fought for girl's education since the age of 16 chose to continue the journey towards her goal. There're many activists who focus on child education rights. Some of these activists show more dedication than others while fighting for a noble cause. Since they begin at young ages, we consider them as teen activists, though this name is not given to any young person. They must possess all of the following qualities and more. They exhibit passion about child education, are determined to spread their cause, and willing to speak out to others. Malala Yousafzai, Zhan Haite, and Valens Ntamushobora have all these qualities and speak out about child education rights every free moment they have.

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Imagine being forced out of school because of your gender, trying to stand up for that, and then getting shot in the head by a Taliban (terrorist). By some miracle the bullet hits your skull, bounces...

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Newsela: School just a dream for many Afghan children, working hard for low pay

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Newsela: School just a dream for many Afghan children, working hard for low pay

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Video: Learn the Issue: Girls’ Education.

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Video: Learn the Issue: Girls’ Education.

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Global Campaign For Education United States Chapter

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Worldwide, 132 million girls are out of school (2016). Of that 132 million, 34.3 million girls are of primary school age. Girls are more likely to have to stay at home and tend to younger siblings and other household chores, and 1 in 3 girls in the developing world are married before the age of 18. Ultimately, their earnings are often tied to men--from fathers, to brothers, to husbands to sons.

Even though they are marginalized throughout the world, investing in women and girls makes the difference. It is estimated that if every girl worldwide received 12 years of quality education, lifetime earnings for women could increase by US$15 trillion. One additional school year can increase a woman's earnings by 10% to 20% toward her future annual income, and adults girls are more likely to invest a far larger percentage of her income back into her family.

By investing in girls you are investing in their future, their family's future and their country's future.
More resources on girls' education:
12 Years of Quality Education for All Girls: A Commonwealth Perspective (2019), The University of Cambridge

Missed Opportunities : The High Cost of Not Educating Girls Report (2018), The World Bank, Global Partnership for Education
Gender and EFA 2000-2015 Achievements and Challenges EFA Global Monitoring Report
Gender Education Monitoring Report Gender Review 2018, United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), UNESCO

Evidence Review: Mitigating threats to girls' education in conflict affected contexts - current practice, The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), Overseas Development Initiative (ODI)

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Girls' Education | Global Campaign For Education United States Chapter

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Girls around the world are often left out of the conversation. In 2000, girls accounted for nearly two thirds of children out of school. Now it stands at half and work is continuing.

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How Five Dollars Represented One Child’s Dreams, Happiness, and Future

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How Five Dollars Represented One Child’s Dreams, Happiness, and Future

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eing a young woman growing up in a rural community in Fiji has always been a challenge. How I view this challenge has changed since I became a part of Roshika Deo - Be the Change, a campaign for equal representation, equal rights and treatment, equal access to basic necessities.

Since we women, youth and children represent more than half of the country's population, we believe we have the right to be heard and have a say in everything that concerns us. That is what I am fighting for.

In my community girls are seen as fragile and we do not have a say in village meetings. When we speak, we are growled at for speaking up and told to be a "girl" and to sit quietly and listen to elders. Also when a teenage girl is pregnant she is pointed at and not the other party - she is driven out of school while the guy walks about freely.

The main challenges faced by girls in my community is that they don't have options or second chances. Once they fail school they have no other option but to stay home and help out with the household chores. Also they are not motivated by their parents.

I want to change the mindset of young girls to help them see that they can achieve so much, even after they drop out of school. Their lives do not always have to revolve around their home and domestic duties. I want them to realise that their voice is as important as their elders.

Biggest challenge: The lack of co-operation from the girls themselves because they adhere more to what they are told rather than what they want.

Proudest moment: Seeing young men join our group to fight for equality.
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eing a young woman growing up in a rural community in Fiji has always been a challenge. How I view this challenge has changed since I became a part of Roshika Deo - Be the Change, a campaign for equal representation, equal rights and treatment, equal access to basic necessities.

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I was born and raised in Kathmandu. My parents moved to the capital from a village after they got married. Although they didn't get a chance to study, they made sure that my sister and I got the opportunity.

My grandmother wanted a grandson from my father. She was disappointed when I was born because I was the second child and they expected a son. Though my father was her eldest son, she never showed love towards us because she expected a grandson. I felt sad about this. However later I realised that this is not just my story; there are a lot of people who have faced gender inequality.

The first challenge a girl faces is her own family. Nowadays, more people support girls' education in Nepal. However, there are still a lot of uneducated families who have no idea about education and women's rights.

If we want equality then we need to involve boys as well as girls in advocacy. The boys should know how girls feel when they are teased, or when the boys are allowed to go out but girls have to stay at home after 7pm.

Biggest challenge: Balancing my studies with extra-curricular activities is one of my biggest challenges. My parents were happy to see how concerned I was about women's rights and my activities in community, but they always had a fear that it might affect my studies.

Proudest moment: Organising a flashmob with Hollaback, which campaigns to end street harassment, was one of my proudest moments. More than anything, for me being a part of Women Lead, the first and only leadership organisation for young women in Nepal, makes me proud. As a trainee and as an intern, I was able to interact with people from different backgrounds and spread the word about women's empowerment and at the same time learn from their experiences.

Currently, I am an undergraduate in Webster university in Thailand, majoring in management and international business. I want to pursue a career in social entrepreneurship. My dream is to transform Nepalese society through responsible solution-oriented business.

When we talk about women in business it is about more than sewing, knitting and household work. Some people in Nepal feel that women can't go beyond that. I want to change their misconception about women in business and as a whole.
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"When we talk about women in business it is about more than sewing, knitting and household work," Menuka Gurung, 19

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In Rwanda, we have one of the most encouraging governments when it comes to empowering women. However, the ties that keep women down are mostly cultural. There isn't a lack of opportunities for women in Rwanda; there is a lack of will among Rwandan women to use those opportunities. That's what I fight to change.

I started getting interested in women's rights when I realised that I was facing cultural stereotypes about my inability to work in the sciences. The government does a lot to change that, but traditions that have held on for years can't be changed overnight.

Biggest challenge: I knew something needed to be done but nothing I could do seemed meaningful enough to change anything. That's when I read many books about challenges that women face worldwide, such as Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and A Thousand Sisters by Lisa Shannon. I started to see the problem as more global, but it made me feel more helpless.

Then I heard of the UN foundation Girl Up. After seeing a global problem, I saw that there might actually be a global solution coming from people of my age. This was the encouragement I needed to start working in my community.

Proudest moment: After that time, with the help of a friend, I opened a girl empowerment organisation. Our goal was to give seminars to younger girls to give a voice to the younger students and to form a united front of young girls ready to fight for every single other young woman who can't fight for themselves.

Even if it's a small change, I know that small change will bring a big change in some people's lives, and that's all I hope for.
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"I started getting interested in women's rights when I realised that I was facing cultural stereotypes about my inability to work in the sciences," says Celeste Dushime, 18

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“I created a resource mobilisation project called Pencil Mountain that has delivered over half a million school resources to Ethiopian children,” Hannah Godefa, 15

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Newsela: U.S. teen "unstoppable" in fight for girl power in Africa

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Newsela: 8 Fukushima schoolkids start a new life 200 miles away

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Newsela: 8 Fukushima schoolkids start a new life 200 miles away

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Newsela: A lost generation of Syrian schoolchildren

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Newsela: A lost generation of Syrian schoolchildren

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Newsela | Civil war makes a lost generation of Syrian schoolchildren

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Children are suffering from three years of war. Poor nutrition and illness stunt their growth, and a lack of schooling derails their education.

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Newsela: Pakistani teacher gives poor kids a school under the sky

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By teaching poor Pakistani kids outdoors, this man honors a promise to his dying father.

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Newsela: First lady announces U.S. pledge to aid Pakistani girls' education

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How to Change the World Through Education

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Malala Receives Europe's Biggest Human Rights Prize

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Malala Yousafzai is a Woman of the Year because... "By targeting her, extremists showed what they feared most: a girl with a book. Malala embodies the power of education to build peace. She is truly a role model for the world."
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Update: Malala wins the Nobel Peace Prize "

For most of us, her story began on October 9, 2012, the day a young man with a handkerchief over his face boarded a bus filled with 20 singing, chatting girls on their way home from school in the lush Swat Valley of northern Pakistan. "Who is Malala?" the man asked. When the girls unwittingly glanced toward their 15-year-old friend near the back, he lifted a black Colt .45 and fired three shots, sending a bullet through her head.

But who is Malala? Her real story, she told me, started years before.

When Malala Yousafzai-named, fittingly, after Malalai, a female Afghan martyr who died in battle-was born, her father, a teacher named Ziauddin, refused to grieve the way fathers in his culture were expected to upon having daughters; instead, he wrote her into his clan's family tree-a distinction usually reserved for boys. And Malala's sense of justice came young. When, at an early age, she saw children living on a garbage dump, she wrote a letter to God. "Give me strength and courage," she pleaded. "I want to make this world perfect."

Malala's valley had always been conservative; she remembers disliking having to cover her face, and bristling at the fact that while boys and men could walk freely around town, her mother could not go out without a male relative, "even if it was a five-year-old boy!" But real danger only came to her peaceful region when she was 10-in the form of the Taliban. Then, says Malala,"I got afraid. Not of the Taliban, but because they were banning girls' education." Schools closed; many were bombed; bodies of dissenters piled up in a town square. The local Taliban leader used his radio show to congratulate by name those girls who dropped out of school. The school Malala's father ran stayed open, but for safety, it removed its signs and the girls stopped wearing their uniforms, which would have made them targets.

And that's when Malala really became Malala. When a BBC journalist asked her father to recommend a teacher or student willing to document the terror, no one volunteered-except his own daughter. "I thought, What a great opportunity," she recalls. "Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up." Under the pen name Gul Makai, she wrote frank, detailed diary entries about her life under the Taliban. Though many urged her to stop, and some have since criticized her father for allowing her to do it, Malala wasn't worried. The Taliban, she remembers, "had never come for a girl."

Emboldened, she began giving speeches across Pakistan in favor of education. She won the country's National Peace Prize and met the prime minister, presenting him with a list of demands on behalf of children-rebuilt schools, a girls' college-but keeping her expectations low. "I told myself, 'I shall not wait for any prime minister-when I'm a politician, I will do these things myself,'" she says. Malala led a double life: In one world, she was an Ugly Betty fan known for her spot-on impersonations of teachers and friends; in the other, a rising voice of dissent against terror. She started to realize her work could be risky. "I used to think that one day the Taliban would come [for me]," she told me. "And I thought, What would I do? I said to myself, 'Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education-you are not committing a crime.' I would even tell [my attacker], 'I want education for your son and daughter.' " Her own mother decided to take classes to learn to read and write.

And then came October 9.

Her parents rushed to her bedside. "My brave daughter, my beautiful daughter," lamented her father, leaning over her. But his brave daughter recovered, thanks in part to two visiting British doctors who were able to take her to a hospital in Birmingham, England. Around the world, women, men, and children prayed for her. Thousands of letters piled up (one addressed simply to "The Girl Shot in the Head, Birmingham"), and people everywhere asked: Would she be okay? Could she lead a normal life again?

It turns out that for Malala, normal was never the goal. In the year since her attack, she has spoken, written, and fought her way into history, becoming the world's leading advocate for educating girls. Not normal-extraordinary.

At the United Nations in July, she brought the general assembly to its feet. "One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world," she said. Since then she has Skyped with Syrian children, written the memoir I Am Malala, charmed Jon Stewart and Barack Obama, and become one of the youngest-ever nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. Throughout it all, she has stayed focused: Let girls go to school.

The issue certainly needs a hero right now. Around the world an estimated 66 million girls are being denied the right to an education. Fix that, scholars have long said, and you could change the course of human history. "There's a saying," says Sheryl WuDunn, coauthor of Half the Sky, "that when you educate boys, you educate boys; when you educate girls, you educate a village." Educated girls are safer from sexual assault and childhood marriage; they go on to raise more-educated children themselves. Her Muslim faith, Malala points out, is in her favor: "Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated," she says. "I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it."

For that sensibility, and for her unstoppable drive to change the world, Malala is Glamour's 2013 Women of the Year Fund honoree. The money raised goes to the project she is most passionate about, The Malala Fund, which aims to help children all over the world get the education that is their birthright. The fund recently made its first grant, supporting the educations of 40 girls in the Swat Valley-an achievement that thrills Malala, who wants to expand to other regions and countries (she cites Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria). "Nothing can happen when half the population is in the Stone Age," she says. "I believe that when women are educated, then you will see this world change."

Malala's own world has changed hugely, from a small town to the global stage. She plans to go to college-Oxford, Cambridge, maybe Harvard, "to learn and learn and learn"-and into politics; one of her heroes is the assassinated Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose scarf she wore during that address at the United Nations.

But the place she'd most like to go is home. She misses it dearly. "I miss my room, I miss the traffic-I even miss that garbage dump!" she says. But it's far too dangerous for her there. "We will target her again and attack whenever we have a chance," a Taliban spokesperson told reporters in October. So Malala and her family-her mother, father, and younger brothers Khushal and Atal-are changing the world from abroad. "If Malala can do what she did-take on the Taliban, at risk to her own life," notes 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner (and Woman of the Year) Jody Williams, "then there is really no excuse for the rest of us not to get up off our butts and work to make the world a better place."

The last time I spoke to Malala (by Skype, with her family milling about behind her), I asked her what she wanted Glamour's 12 million readers to know. "You can tell them a story from my imagination!" she said cheerfully. "When God created man and woman, he was thinking, Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being? And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful. Women are strong. Women can do anything. Come out and struggle for your rights; nothing can happen without your voice.

"Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world, and you can change it."

__Read more:

* Glamour Women of the Year 2013

* The Malala Fund

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Malala Yousafzai is a Woman of the Year because... "By targeting her, extremists showed what they feared most: a girl with a book. Malala embodies the power of education to build peace. She is truly a role model for the world." -Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations