When the deputy head mistress pulled Malala Yousafzai out of high school chemistry class one morning a year ago, Malala nervously searched her mind for recent offenses. “You usually get a bit scared ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) – A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani ...

Hundreds of California Lutheran University students gathered May 9 to hear, as President John Nunes described it, the power of one voice that refused to be silenced. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani ...

Addressing education ministers gathered at the London forum, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate framed girls’ education as an urgent challenge rather than a long‑term aspiration. In the occupied West Bank ...

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Pakistan, July 13 -- Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate, celebrated her 28th birthday in Tanzania while engaging with young girls championing their right to education. Marking ...

A grim milestone in Afghanistan this week as the country marks 1,000 days since girls were banned from attending secondary school. Afghanistan is once more a desperate place for women, who are seeing ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 13 (UNHCR) - Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has marked her 18th birthday with a renewed commitment to refugees and education by inaugurating a school ...

Hundreds of California Lutheran University students gathered May 9 to hear, as President John Nunes described it, the power of one voice that refused to be silenced. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani ...