• Women Are Perfect •

Malala Yousafzai, nasceu em Mignora, Paquistão, a 12 de julho de 1971. Malala é uma conhecida estudante e ativista que lutou pelos direitos à educação das mulheres, que muitas vezes é proibida pelo Talibã.

No início de 2009, com 12 anos de idade, escreveu um blogue sob um pseudônimo para a BBC descrevendo a sua vida sob o regime Talibã e a sua opinião sobre a promoção da educação para mulheres.

Malala Yousafzai , was born in Mignora , Pakistan, July 12, 1971. Malala is a known student and activist who fought for the rights of women to education, which is often banned by the Taliban .

In early 2009, with 12 years old, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC describing her life under the Taliban regime and her opinion on the promotion of education for women. The following summer, a documentary of The New York Times was filmed about her life, in which she intervened by giving interviews to the media. Malala was then nominated for the International Award of the Child by Desmond Tutu, a South African activist .

In October 9, 2012, Yousafzai was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Taliban, she was shot in the head and in the neck when she was coming home on the school bus . On October 12, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa ( legal pronouncement in Islam issued by an expert in religious law) against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban threatened they would try to kill Malala and her father again. After nearly three months of hospitalization, Malala left the hospital January 4, 2013.

In July 12, 2013, Malala turned 16. On this day she also spoke at the UN Youth Assembly: [...] "Let's get our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. A child , a teacher, a pen and a book can change the world. Education is the only solution." [...]

In October 10, 2013, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament. Others awards won by Malala Yousafzai: National Youth Peace Prize (2011), Sitara - e- Shujaat, third largest civil courage award from Pakistan, Foreign Policy Magazine, Top 100 Global Thinker (2012); Time, list of influential people (2012), Mother Teresa Memorial award for Social Justice (2012); Romano award for Peace and Humanitarian Action (2012); Top Name 2012, Annual Survey of Global Inglês (2013), Simone de Beauvoir prize (2013); award Fred and Anne Jarvis, the National Union of Teachers in the UK (2013), Annual Development Award from the OPEC Fund for International Development, OFID (2013), International Catalunya Prize (2013); Anna Politkovskaya Award (2013).

Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos

(9 de Novembro de 1978)

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ARTIGO 1.º

Todos os seres humanos nascem livres e iguais em dignidade e em direitos. Dotados de razão e de consciência, devem agir uns para com os outros em espírito de fraternidade.

ARTIGO 2.º

Todos os seres humanos podem invocar os direitos e as liberdades proclamados na presente Declaração, sem distinção alguma, nomeadamente de raça, de cor, de sexo, de língua, de religião, de opinião política ou outra, de origem nacional ou social, de fortuna, de nascimento ou de qualquer outra situação. (…)

ARTIGO 7.º

Todos são iguais perante a lei e, sem distinção, têm direito a igual protecção da lei. Todos têm direito a protecção igual contra qualquer discriminação que viole a presente Declaração e contra qualquer incitamento a tal discriminação.

ARTIGO 23.º

1. Toda a pessoa tem direito ao trabalho, à livre escolha do trabalho, a condições equitativas e satisfatórias de trabalho e à protecção contra o desemprego.
2. Todos têm direito, sem discriminação alguma, a salário igual por trabalho igual.
3. Quem trabalha tem direito a uma remuneração equitativa e satisfatória, que lhe permita e à sua família uma existência conforme com a dignidade humana, e completada, se possível, por todos os outros meios de protecção social. (...)

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The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights 

(November, 9th. 1978)

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Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. (…)

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (…)

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