Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in
the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, pledged
while on a trip to Nigeria to help free a group of schoolgirls abducted
by Islamist militants.
Malala, thoughtful and self-possessed, explained that she had made
the journey to Nigeria from Birmingham in England, where she lives at
present, because she regarded the kidnapped girls as her sisters.
"I am going to stand up for them," she said.
Monday has been designated by the United Nations as Malala
Day. She has just turned 17, and she decided that she must mark it by
coming to Nigeria and appealing for the release of the kidnapped girls
and the right of all children here to an education.
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