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For Malala & right to education

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Malala Yousafzai [wiki] is a 15-year-old education and women’s rights activist from the town of Mingora in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. She was shot (and survived) in an assassination attempt by Taliban on October 9, 2012.

November 10 has been designated as Malala Day by The Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education [] aimed to deliver education for every child around the world.

There’s lots of stuff going in my mind but I’m short of words… it’s never an easy thing to tackle issues like human-rights, poverty, overpopulation, terrorism, child-labour etc. Perhaps education is the answer… it’s a long and difficult journey regardless.

Malala’s courage and bravery deserves my utmost admiration. I’m feeling a bit ashamed to be frank, and I’m pledging myself to do more to make the world a better place.

Nobel Peace Prize 2010 for China’s Liu Xiaobo

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Nobel Peace Prize 2010 winner China Liu XiaoboThe Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”

Liu, 54, who was a key leader in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, was sentenced on Christmas Day last year to 11 years in prison for subversion.

China said the award was a violation of Nobel principles and could damage relations with Norway. More on BBC.

As expected, the Chinese government has ordered a news blackout on major news portals and has censored foreign news broadcasts (CNN etc.) which are related to the award, but it’s just impossible to block all online information these days.