Malala Yousafzai -- the 15-year-old Pakistani girl militants tried to assassinate -- is the first signatory of a new worldwide petition launched today after terrorists, hell-bent on preventing girls being educated, murdered 14 students at an all girls' college in Pakistan.

The full horror of Saturday's terrorist attack on...

A third Pakistani school has been attacked in an escalating wave of violence by Taliban militants determined to stamp out the provision of girls' education.

Two out of the three classrooms of an all-girls school in Zalim Kalan in the Bannu Province were the latest school buildings to be destroyed,...

Pakistan is today counting the costs of a week of carnage in which teachers and pupils have been violently attacked simply because they want to go to school. As pupils gathered at the Baldia Town School this morning for an awards ceremony, grenades were hurled into the building and then...

Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin are the first two signatories of the petition to the Pakistani President following the assassination of Shahnaz Nazli yesterday. Shahnaz, a 41-year-old Pakistani woman shot on her way to work at a girls' school in Jamrud, was a courageous teacher who joins a list...

Unless we act, 531 million of today's girls will never complete a school education, and in the poorest countries only one in 700 will go to university.

Because of two recent tragedies -- the shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last October, and the rape and murder in December of...

This is the third in a series of blogs by Gordon Brown written from WEF in Davos, looking at the growing global empowerment of young women. Stay up to date by signing up at www.educationenvoy.org.

If one thing was made clear by the scale of the recent anti-child slavery...

This is the second in a series of blogs by Gordon Brown written from WEF in Davos, looking at the growing global empowerment of young women. Stay up to date by signing up at www.educationenvoy.org.

When Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban last year for daring...

This is the first in a series of blogs by Gordon Brown written from WEF in Davos, looking at the growing global empowerment of young women. Stay up to date by signing up at www.educationenvoy.org.

The rights of girls is becoming the hot topic of the 2013, as a...

Pressure is mounting on the Indian Parliament to end child labour after 150,000 Indians signed an abolition petition demanding an immediate change in the child labour laws.

The petition follows the recent revelation of slave labour conditions under which young children of eight and nine were making Christmas decorations....

Après l'information tragique cette semaine au sujet de Shiwa Hasmi, 16 ans, originaire du district de Bardiya au Nepal, j'ai demandé à différents gouvernements et aux Nations Unis de renforcer les lois contre le mariage des enfants, et en faveur de l'éducation des jeunes filles. Shiwa est décédée à l'hôpital...

After the tragic news this week of 16-year-old Shiwa Hasmi of Bardiya district in Nepal, I am asking governments and the UN to enforce laws against child marriage and in favour of universal education for girls. Shiwa died in hospital after being set on fire following her refusal to be...

When Malala Yousafzai was targeted and shot by the Taliban in Pakistan on October 9th, simply for wanting to go to school, the whole world of education was changed forever.

Globally, 32 million girls do not yet go to primary school and since October 9th, thousands of children have demonstrated,...

Just 72 hours ago in the Indian capital of Delhi 14 children were freed from slave labour. They were being held in dark, insanitary conditions and forced to work for up to 15 hours a day making Christmas decorations. Two were just eight years old.

The suffering of these...

Today, one month after the terrible shooting of Malala Yousafzai, I met with the president of Pakistan to discuss Malala's dream of education for all.

On the eve of Malala Day, I presented petitions already signed by over one million people in the international community in honor of Malala...

A vast outpouring of global support for Malala Yousafzai will happen on Saturday when the world comes together to back her cause for a girl's right to go to school. From the rickshaw on the streets of Islamabad with a poster featuring Malala's face simply stating, "Peace and Education," to...

On November 10th we will celebrate 'Malala Day,' the moment the whole world honors the sacrifice of Malala Yousafzai, the young girl shot by the Taliban simply for trying to go to school.

Fortunately, Malala is starting on the road to recovery and Malala Day, one month after Malala was...

A second Pakistani girl is now speaking out publicly about threats against her for attending school. Hina Khan, now 17, has been an advocate for education, particularly girls', and now is unable to leave her house because of death threats.

Pakistan is now one of...

T­he world is encouraged as Malala Yousafzai continues her fight since being shot in the head by the Taliban simply because she wanted to go to school. This weekend when she stood up for the first time since being laid low by the dreadful attack, the world witnessed her standing...

Este lunes, Malala Yousafzai, de 14 años, que recibió un disparo de los talibanes en la cabeza por querer ir a la escuela, llegó al Reino Unido para recibir tratamiento médico.

Los expertos médicos dicen que a Malala, que ha tenido la suerte de no morir...

Today 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting to go to school, will arrive in the UK for medical treatment.

Medical experts say that Malala, fortunate to escape death from the assassin's bullet, faces a long haul to recovery. I know the Birmingham hospital where...