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STORY: UN / MALALA
TRT: 3.09
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
12 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Malala Yousafzai, and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the dais
3. Wide shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I urge you to keep speaking out. Keep raising the pressure. Keep making a difference. And together, let us follow the lead of this brave young girl, Malala. Let us put education first. Let us make this world better for all, and let us shape the future we want. And I thank Malala, happy birthday again. I wish you all the best. Thank you.”
5. Various shots, audience applause
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“You have been taken from your own country that you love. But yet today, here on your 16th birthday, you are at the United Nations urging us to do more to support the campaign for girls and boys education. You are an inspiration to us all. You are challenging us to do more. Never before, I believe, has a sixteenth birthday been celebrated in this way. But never before either have we had a teenager that has shown such courage and never before have we had a teenager who was so passionate about the future of education. So as Malala comes to the stage to speak to you, let me repeat the words, the words the Taliban never wanted her to hear; happy sixteenth birthday Malala.”
7. Med shot, audience applause
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Student:
“Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who has raised their voice for their rights. There are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for their rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goal of peace, education and equality.”
9. Med shot, audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Student:
“Let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Let us pick up, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first. Thank you.”
11. Wide shot, audience applause
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending classes, today (12 July) addressed hundreds of young people at the United Nations, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has dubbed today - Yousafzai’s 16th birthday – ‘Malala Day’ in honour of her heroic stand to ensure education for all, urged the UN Youth Assembly to “keep speaking out. Keep raising the pressure. Keep making a difference.”
He said “let us follow the lead of this brave young girl, Malala. Let us put education first. Let us make this world better for all, and let us shape the future we want” before wishing Yousafzai a happy birthday.
He also drew attention to the UN Global Education First Initiative, which seeks to put every child in school, improve the quality of learning, and foster global citizenship by the end of 2015.
The meeting, which featured nearly 1,000 youth leaders, was addressed by former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in his capacity as UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and Vuk Jeremic, President of the General Assembly.
Brown, also wished her a happy sixteenth birthday and said she was “an inspiration to us all.”
He said that never before had a sixteenth birthday been celebrated in this way, but added that “never before either have we had a teenager that has shown such courage and never before have we had a teenager who was so passionate about the future of education.”
Yousafzai, in her speech to the Youth Assembly, said today was “the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who has raised their voice for their rights” and dedicated it to those who are “struggling to achieve their goal of peace, education and equality.”
The Pakistani student made a call for waging “a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.”
She said “let us pick up our books and our pens, they are our most powerful weapons” and added that “one child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”
Last month, Yousafzai was the first person to sign a new worldwide petition calling for urgent action to ensure the right of every child to safely attend school. The petition was launched with the backing of Prime Minister Brown.
Globally, the number of children out of school has fallen from 60 million in 2008 to 57 million in 2011. However, 28 million children out of school live in the world’s conflict zones, and more than half of those are women and girls.
