Google – AFP, 25 November 2013
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Pakistani
teenager Malala Yousafzai addresses the European Parliament
assembly on
November 20, 2013 after receiving the EU's prestigious Sakharov
human rights
prize (AFP/File, Patrick Hertzog)
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Mexico City
— Mexico said Sunday it will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality
and Non-Discrimination to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the
Taliban for championing girls' rights to education.
The award
seeks to recognize Malala's efforts for "the protection of human
rights" and especially her fight to protect the right to education without
discrimination on "grounds of age, gender, sex and religion,"
Mexico's official National Council to Prevent Discrimination said in a statement.
The award
ceremony is planned for early 2014.
The
16-year-old, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in 2012, has become a
global ambassador for the rights of children.
She is
currently living in Britain, where she underwent surgery after the attack.
Malala, who
since age 11 has written a blog about girls' right to education, has written an
autobiography, addressed the United Nations and set up a fund to help girls
around the world go to school and promote universal access to education.
Last week,
she was awarded the European Union's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize at
a ceremony significantly held on World Children's Day.
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Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai is awarded with the
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by European Parliament chief Martin Schulz in Strasbourg, eastern France, on November 20, 2013 (AFP, Patrick) |
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