Malala Yousafzai has a message for Canadian kids: Don’t wait, to make a difference. Just because you’re young doesn’t mean you can’t be a leader.
Yousafzai is an activist for children’s rights, and particularly the right for girls to get an education.
In this case, “activist” means that she tries to get that message out, no matter how difficult that may be for her.
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Winter Olympics Spark Discussion Of Gay Rights
The Olympics are about athletics and competition.
However, with representatives from so many different countries coming together in one city, it is often about “politics” and “political issues” as well.
In other words, different countries have different rules, laws and beliefs.
Sometimes, countries’ beliefs clash.
That has been the case in Russia at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
“Father Of South Africa” Nelson Mandela Responding Well To Treatment In Hospital
Nelson Mandela is responding well to treatment, according to his doctors.
Mandela is one of the most well-known and respected people in the world.
He is 94 years old and is in hospital, fighting a recurring lung infection.
Doctors say he is in serious but stable condition.
To many people around the world, Mandela is known as a great hero.
He fought for the freedom of blacks in South Africa.
During the 1950s until the late 1980s, South Africa was ruled by a relatively small number of white people. Black people, in the majority in the country, had few rights.
The separation of white people and black people** was known as “apartheid.”
Blacks were not allowed to be citizens, and were not given the same rights as white people. Services for black people were greatly inferior to those provided to white people. Black people were not allowed access to the best schools, hospitals, beaches or many other services to which the country’s white people had access.
Apartheid was denounced around the world, but South Africa’s government refused to change its policy.
Nelson Mandela, and people who followed him, wanted to change things.
