Malala Yousafzai’s Journey From Survivor to Global Advocate

The right to education doesn’t end at primary school

So They Can is closing the gap between girls’ right to education and what happens when primary school ends, writes Ellie Knight.

Malala Yousafzai’s Journey From Survivor to Global Advocate

In 2012, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot for opposing the Taliban restrictions on women’s education in her homeland, Pakistan. Malala had been a civil rights activist for years, anonymously publishing the fears and challenges she and her friends faced at school on her blog. Following the Taliban attack, which garnered worldwide attention, more than two million people signed the petition for women’s right to education in Pakistan, resulting…