Malala Research Paper

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The other day I was looking online and saw an outrageous fact. Globally 65 million girls are not in school, 31 million girls of ages from 5-12 are not in school, 17 million of these girls will never attend school in their lifetimes, and 123 million young people between the ages of 15 and 24 who can not read and write, more than half of them are women. Now I know that, that is a lot of numbers to take in at once, but this problem is affecting the world tremendously, and this is not a problem that we can just ignore. Women’s rights has been an issue that generations of powerful women have fought for before us, and even though today we might have equal opportunities, the fight still isn’t over.
I mean imagine just wanting an education, but being
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Malala was born on the 12th of July 1997, in Mingora Pakistan.
In 2007, when Malala was 10 years old, the situation in the Swat Valley changed for her family and community. The Taliban, a Muslim group that are very strict with religions and traditions, began to control the Swat Valley. Girls were banned from going to school, and by the end of 2008 the Taliban had destroyed more than 400 schools.
As a young girl Malala demanded that girls should be allowed to receive an education.
When Malala was 11 years old she wrote her first BBC diary entry under the blog heading “I am afraid” she describes her fear of a full blown war in her beautiful Swat Valley and her nightmares about being afraid to go to school because of the Taliban.
When she took a bus to head home from school, two members of the Taliban Stopped the bus and asked “Who is Malala?” when her classmates looked in her direction they knew where their target was straight away. They fired away, the bullets hit Malala inside the left side of neck, and then travelled down her neck, Two girls beside her also got