Malala Yousafzai who Survived Taliban Assassination Attempt Speaks at UN headquarters [Video]

In her first speech since the Taliban in Pakistan tried to kill her for advocating education for girls, Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 16th birthday today Friday at the United Nations on day named in her honour, appealing for compulsory free schooling for all children.

The heroic teenager at the UN headquarters in New York spoke with surprising maturity about the Taliban in her native Pakistan and said she wanted to speak out for the right to an education for every child.

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In October last year, aged 15, Malala was travelling on a bus when she was shot in the head by a Taliban terrorist.

She was targeted for writing an anonymous blog speaking out for women and education for BBC Urdu in 2009.

At the time she said: “I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.”

In her blog, she told how the Taliban bombed and burnt at least 150 girls' schools in 2008 alone.
She has also appeared on TV to urge the cause of education and has since become a symbol for the right of girls to go to school.