However, the latest honour in her name is a huge one. The Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education, set up at a Unesco-organised ‘Stand up for Malala’ event, in Paris on December 10, aims to raise billions of dollars to ensure that all girls around the world go to school by 2015, in line with the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. President Asif Ali Zardari, who met Malala in the UK hospital where she remains under treatment, got the fund in Malala’s name rolling with a $10 million donation.
Tributes for Malala poured in, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the EU’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, sending special videotaped messages of support. Malala’s birthday, July 12, has been declared a special day of action for the rights of girls to education and her father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, has been appointed to help create a new ‘Malala Plan’ to get all girls into school around the world.
Malala has moved the world. It is a pity it took so terrible a crime to do so. The challenge ahead is also a big one. According to UN estimates, 61 million children do not go to school around the world; girls account for two-thirds of this number. Too many of these girls live in Pakistan. Female literacy in the country still stands below 40 per cent; in some parts of the tribal belt and Balochistan, even today, enrolment for girls at schools is dismally low. It is these realities that we have to change. More than any words, it is real change in her own country which would constitute a real tribute to Malala. For the sake of all girls, this change must come.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2012.
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The “brave Malala” story is completely fake just like the Jessica Lynch story, just like the Nurse Nayirah story, just like the Nada story from Iran. It’s a marketing campaign, selling war via emotional contextualism dependent on high levels of cognitive dissonance. In other words; Daddy’s Little Girl As I have stated before, one of the key elements of this Malala psyop is the Gordon Brown global campaign for charter, for-profit school systems. There’s billions of dollars to be made in this arena, money just sitting there on the table for the taking. The UN mandate is called Education First. It’s a global “public/private partnership” scheme (privatization) involving a “not-for-profit” institution (Global Business Coalition for Education) set up by Accenture, Hess, Chevron, Pearson International and others. Gordon Brown goes so far as to claim this is “Malala’s next fight” in a Daily Beast article dated Oct. 14th
Meet Adam Ellick, the Council on Foreign Relations member and apparent CIA Mockingbird stationed at the New York Times. He’s the guy who helped create the Malala Psyop in the first place, the plan to bring for-profit school systems to all of Pakistan.
I think it’s safe to say that several agendas are being supported with this single attack on a single little girl, but in my mind I have to wonder just how much of this was her fight to begin with and how much of it was that of her father? Adam inadvertently reveals quite a bit about this dilemma in one of his recent articles on the subject of the documentary he made on Malala back in 2009.
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/the-staged-malala-yousafzai-story-the-making-of-malala-the-cfr-mockingbird-reporter-and-the-charter-school-owner-father/ http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-staged-malala-yousafzai-story-neoliberal-near-martyr-of-the-global-free-market-wars/ http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-staged-malala-yousafzai-story-neoliberal-near-martyr-of-the-global-free-market-wars/
For God's sake give this girl a rest! I am sick of seeing this girl's face on every paper since she was shot. They are plenty of children killed every day all over this country what about them??