Human Rights - Manenberg teen attends "Malala Day" youth session

In today's show, we spoke to Cherlene Thomasso – A grade 11 learner at Manenberg High School. We were talking about the Malala Day Youth Session that she recently attended in New York. The youth session held two weeks ago at the United Nations headquarters was in honour of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who made headlines around the world last year after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen while on a school bus. She was shot for campaigning for the right for girls to be educated. Cherlene was nominated to attend based on her demonstration of active and committed advocacy for education. The main event involved a youth assembly where Malala celebrated her 16^th birthday by addressing hundreds of young people.