A young woman named Malala Yousafzai shares the honours as winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. She missed out last year because the tall foreheads of the awards committee decided that a group called the ‘Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ was more worthy. I have no comments about the worthiness of the 2013 selection, given the atrocities that nations commit against their own citizens and others using weapons like chlorine gas. What strikes me though is how this young woman – targeted by the vicious Taliban for killing because she promoted schooling for young girls and education of women in Pakistan – not only recovered from a grievous wound to the head, but had the courage to continue to speak out…
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