Mexico
will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination to
Malala Yousafzai.
The award seeks to recognize Malala's efforts for
"the protection of human rights" and especially her fight to protect
the right to education without discrimination on "grounds of age, gender,
sex and religion," Mexico's official National Council to Prevent
Discrimination said in a statement on 24 Oct.
The award ceremony is planned for early 2014. The
16-year-old, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in 2012, has become a
global ambassador for the rights of children.
Malala, who since age 11 has written a blog about girls' right to
education, has written an autobiography, addressed the United Nations and set
up a fund to help girls around the world go to school and promote universal
access to education.
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