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Breaking News - Malala Yousafzai Urges Students To Use Their Voice To Enact Change - GEO NEWS

NEW YORK: Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged students around the world students on Thursday to passionately use their voices to enact change.

Addressing a ceremony at the Harvard Kennedy School where Yousafzai was awarded the 2018 Gleitsman Award from the Center for Public, she said “Right now, there are 130 million girls who do not have access to a quality education. We should all make it our challenge to challenge those critical views, all those religious beliefs, and all those cultures that deny us an education.”

The Harvard Kennedy School’s 2018 Gleitsman International Activist Award, which comes with a $125,000 prize was awarded to Yousafzai for her work promoting girls’ education.

The Gleitsman Award, whose previous recipients include South African President Nelson Mandela is awarded biennially to an individual who has “sparked positive social change and inspired others to do the same,” according to the Kennedy School’s website.


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