In Pakistan, a 14 year-old girl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the head by Taliban militants in response to her promotion of secularism, the BBC reports.
The girl, who with her father have promoted the education of girls and women in Afghanistan, wrote a diary for the BBC in 2009 when she was 11.
Videos of Malali Yousafzai can be found below.
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