One lived, one died.
A Pakistani teenage student spoke out for the rights of girls and women to be educated, was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, and survived. She has recovered enough to leave the hospital, and continue speaking her truth. Another student has died in hospital two weeks after being gang-raped and beaten, and from public indifference in her home country of India, that let her lie in the street unaided for half an hour or more. These two women are the world's newest symbols of the drive for... Sign in to see full entry.