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Detailed explanation-1: -Malala Yousafzai designated youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today designated children’s rights activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai as a UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on girls’ education .

Detailed explanation-2: -Nothing changed in my life except this: Weaknesses, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born, ” she said. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that, in shooting Malala, the extremists showed what they feared most – a girl in school.

Detailed explanation-3: -President, the U.N. and its members must remember their commitment to the protection of the “dignity and worth of the human person.” We must support education for Afghan girls because it is their human right. And because it is vital to a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -New Delhi: As a 16-year-old, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai had made an impassioned speech about gender equality in education at the United Nations headquarters on 12 July, 2013. Her speech received a standing ovation from all delegates.

Detailed explanation-5: -Yousafzai was just 15 years old when the Pakistani Taliban-an independent group that shares a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban-shot her in the head over her campaign for girls’ education.