April 13 (UPI) -- Activist Malala Yousafzai became an honorary Canadian citizen and gave a speech to Parliament urging the Canadian government to globally prioritize girls' education.
Yousafzai, 19, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, asked Canada in her address Wednesday to make the schooling of girls a global issue and to insist on 12 years of education for refugees. She also requested that Canada host a meeting of the Global Partnership for Education, a Washington-based non-profit organization of 65 countries serving as the only global fund whose sole focus is education in developing countries.