Two teenage girls, not even old enough to legally drive are a major force for female education in the Middle East and possibly the world.
With a combined age of under 31-years old, Shazia Ramzan and her friend Malala Yousafzai survived an execution attempt from a Taliban gunman last October.
Ramzan is back in school and ignored earlier threats from the same Taliban terrorists who shot her and Yousafzai nearly a year ago according to the July, 1 article by Gordon Brown; "The story of Malala's friend: Brightening girls' lives with education." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/opinion/shazia-gordon-brown/index.html?
The two Pakistan girls are continuing their education in the U.K. Yousafzai, after being shot in the head and Ramzan who was shot in the neck and arm are on a mission to not only graduate college but to ensure other Pakistan girls get a full education. According to Gordon's article 40 Pakistan girls will get an education because of Yousafzai. Her goal is to get 40,000,000 girls an education.
These two amazingly brave girls have stood up to the Taliban simply because they want an education which was the sole reason they were shot in the first place. The Pakistani government has agreed for the first time to legislate compulsory free education and provided stipends for 3,000,000 children since the horrid acts where committed against Yousafzai and Ramzan.
Pakistan schools that continue to education females are under constant threats of bombing and sadistic killing of innocent teachers, staff and children. In March, 41-year-old teacher Shahnaz Nazli who'd been teaching for 24-years was shot to death in front of her son while she was on her way to teach at an all-girls school in Pakistan. For much more details you can read Gordon's article; "Teacher's murder sparks calls for school protection for Pakistan's girls." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/asia/pakistan-teacher-death-petition/index.html
Brown is a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. He was formerly the U.K.'s prime minister. Brown's goal is to have worldwide education by 2015. He claims this is very possible if all the rich governments and even the poor countries in the world channel money into this.
Currently there are 61,000,000 children shut out of primary school, 34,000,000 adolescent girls not attending school and 10,000,000 girls forced into marriage, many of them very young teenagers.
If knowledge is indeed power than the men who hold high places must be the ones who fund Browns plans for global education. I highly recommend the following two web sites;
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn#/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn and http://educationenvoy.org/
