International Malala Day 2025 Observed Globally on July 12 to Promote Girls’ Right to Education.
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International Malala Day 2025 was observed across the world on 12th July 2025 to mark the birth anniversary of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and globally renowned Pakistani education activist. The day reaffirms the international community’s commitment to ensuring education for every girl and promoting gender equality through access to learning.
- The observance highlights the ongoing global struggle for girls' education and equality in educational opportunities. It draws attention to the challenges faced by girls across various regions in accessing quality education, while celebrating advocates like Malala Yousafzai who have become global symbols of educational justice.
- The day’s significance originates from 12 July 2013, when Malala delivered a historic speech at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, just after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012. The speech emphasized equal access to education and established her international identity as a youth leader and champion for the rights of girls and marginalized communities.
- Following her powerful address, the United Nations officially declared 12th July as "Malala Day," in honour of her advocacy. The first global observance of Malala Day took place on 12th July 2013. Since then, it is commemorated every year to remind the world of the unfinished agenda of universal education and Malala’s enduring legacy.
Main Point :- (i) The 2025 edition of Malala Day also supports the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI), launched in 2012. GEFI mobilizes governments and civil society to prioritize education in national policies, with a special focus on free and compulsory schooling for every child, especially girls.
(ii) Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, became a global icon after surviving a targeted attack in 2012.
(iii) She later co-authored her memoir “I Am Malala”, and in 2014 became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17. Her foundation, the Malala Fund, works worldwide to ensure 12 years of free education for all girls.
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