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A Nobel Prize for All Malalas in the World

· Written by Gabriela García Calderón Orbe Translated by Gabriela García Calderón

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Latin America, South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Peru, Citizen Media, Women & Gender
Malala Yousafzai. Imagen del usuario Jabiz Raisdana de Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Malala Yousafzai. Image by user Jabiz Raisdana [1] on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

The blog MujeresMundi [2] is an infoactivism project run by Belgium-based Peruvian Xaviera Medina “committed to gender as a key to development”.

Their most recent post [3] refers to the Nobel Peace Prize that has been awarded to education Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai [4]:

[…] Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that Malala is not an isolated case. Education is not an inherent right for girls in many countries, and every day, hundreds of Malalas are threatened for attending to school.

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The 2014 Nobel must remind us that Malala Yousafzai is not an anecdotic case, but a everyday reality of thousands of youngster and children around the world.