{"id":3384,"date":"2015-07-22T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2020-01-04T01:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:52:44","slug":"malala-marks-18th-birthday-by-opening-school-for-girl-refugees-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Malala marks 18th birthday by opening school for girl refugees in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE .<\/p>\n

An article by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has marked her 18th birthday with a renewed commitment to refugees and education by inaugurating a school for more than 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley.<\/p>\n

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\nEducation activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai celebrates her 18th birthday in Lebanon with Syrian refugees. Malala opened a new school in the Bekaa Valley funded by the Malala Fund, the non-profit she co-founded with her father Ziauddin.
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Opening The Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School on Sunday (July 12), she said: \u201cI am honoured to mark my 18th birthday with the brave and inspiring girls of Syria. I am here on behalf of the 28 million children who are kept from the classroom because of armed conflict. Their courage and dedication to continue their schooling in difficult conditions inspires people around the world and it is our duty to stand by them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ant\u00f3nio Guterres welcomed the initiative.
\n\u201cWe are really heartened by Malala\u2019s ardent support for the education of refugee girls whose aspirations have already been so cruelly cut short by war. These children are the future of Syria; we must not jeopardise that by denying them the basic right to education while they are in exile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Malala, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, was attacked in her native Pakistan in 2012 because of her campaign for girls\u2019 rights and education. The new school will offer education and skills training to girl refugees aged 14 to 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I ask a Syrian refugee child what they would most like to do, the overwhelming response is \u2018I want to go to school.\u2019,\u201d Guterres added. \u201cIn Malala, we could not have a better advocate for refugee education and are very grateful for her solidarity and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yousafzai added that she believed world leaders were failing Syria\u2019s children.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn this day, I have a message for the leaders of this country, this region and the world: \u2018you are failing the Syrian people, especially Syria\u2019s children\u2019. This is a heart-breaking tragedy \u2014 the world\u2019s worst refugee crisis in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lebanon is hosting nearly 1.2 million registered Syrian refugees, though the total number in the country may be even higher.<\/p>\n

The influx has placed strains on Lebanon, which has just four million citizens.<\/p>\n

UNHCR itself has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on two occasions, the last time in 1981.<\/p>\n

(Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter for this article.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How do we promote a human rights, peace based education?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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