http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X70VyjU0g
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23282662
BBCからです。先日マララ・ユサフザイが国連本部で演説をしました。彼女は2012年10月9日通っていた中学校から帰宅途中に複数の男に銃撃され頭部と首に2発の銃弾を受けました。銃撃された理由は、ターリバーンによる女子校の破壊活動を批判、女性への教育の必要性や平和を訴える活動をしたためです。彼女はまだ15歳です。
今回は英文解説はしません。スピーチも比較的聞きやすいと思います。
Shot Pakistan schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai addresses UN
12 July 2013 Last updated at 15:02 GMT
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban, has told the UN that books and pens scare extremists, as she urged education for all.Speaking on her 16th birthday, Malala said efforts to silence her had failed.
She was shot in the head on a school bus by Taliban gunmen because of her campaign for girls' rights.
The speech at the UN headquarters in New York was her first public address since last October's incident in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley.
Malala has been credited with bringing the issue of women's education to global attention. A quarter of young women around the world have not completed primary school.
'Afraid of women'
After the shooting, Malala was flown from Pakistan to the UK for treatment, and now lives in Birmingham, England.
Amid several standing ovations, Malala told the UN on Friday that the Taliban's attack had only made her more resolute.
"The terrorists thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambitions," she said, "but nothing changed in my life, except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born."
She continued: "I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists."
Malala - who is considered a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize - said she was fighting for the rights of women because "they are the ones who suffer the most".
"The extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens," added Malala, who was wearing a pink shawl that belonged to assassinated Pakistan leader Benazir Bhutto. "They are afraid of women."
She called on politicians to take urgent action to ensure every child has the right to go to school.
中略
Unesco and Save the Children released a special reported ahead of Malala's speech.
It found that 95% of the 28.5 million children who are not getting a primary school education live in low and lower-middle income countries: 44% in sub-Saharan Africa, 19% in south and west Asia and 14% in the Arab states.
Girls make up 55% of the total and are often the victims of rape and other sexual violence that accompanies armed conflicts.
addresses 演説する
extremist 過激派
urge 強く勧める
silence 沈黙させる
be credited with ～と信じられている
contender 競争者
assassinate 暗殺する
accompany ～を伴う
