Malala Yousafzai spent her 16th birthday demanding compulsory education for young people worldwide. 
 In a speech Friday at the UN in New York, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head in October 2012 for 
speaking out about her right to education, talked about how she 
represents some 57 million children around the world are not going to 
school.
"We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced."  
