{"id":6160,"date":"2013-11-20T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/malala-yousafzai-to-receive-european-human-rights-prize\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:36:18","slug":"malala-yousafzai-to-receive-european-human-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/malala-yousafzai-to-receive-european-human-rights-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Malala Yousafzai to Receive European Human Rights Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani teenager who spoke against the Taliban <\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"225\" width=\"460\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Malala_Yousafzai-Event-460x225.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai will on Wednesday 20 November formally receive the 2013 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and human rights.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMalala Yousafzai is a world famous Pakistani teenager who spoke out against the Pakistani Taliban&#8217;s closure of girls&#8217; schools in her region of the Swat valley. In October 2012 she narrowly survived an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen. She has since captured the world&#8217;s imagination with her continued fight for access to education for girls and boys worldwide.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBritish MEP Sir Graham Watson was the first to put Malala Yousafzai forward as a nominee and led the campaign for her to be awarded the European Parliament prize.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCommenting, Sir Graham said:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Malala&#8217;s ability to stand up, look violence squarely in the eyes and respond with nothing but compassion is deeply moving.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Education is by far the most powerful tool we have for world development. I was inspired to nominate Malala because of the way she, with her &#8216;weapons of books and pens&#8217;, now personifies the fight for the universal right to education.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hers is a story of David and Goliath. With grit and determination, a single schoolgirl has humiliated a powerful militant Islamist organisation. Malala and her father have achieved something incredible &#8211; she is winning the moral argument. And now, thanks to having won the Sakharov human rights prize, she knows that the European Parliament will back her all the way.&#8221;&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani teenager who spoke against the Taliban &#13; Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai will on Wednesday 20 November formally receive the 2013 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and human rights.&#13; \u00a0&#13; Malala Yousafzai is a world famous Pakistani teenager who spoke out against the Pakistani Taliban&#8217;s closure of girls&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}