Check out the The United Nations Year in Review: Looking Back at Major Events of 2013.

Image: Malala Yousafzai, the?education rights campaigner from Pakistan, speaking?at the Malala Day UN Youth Assembly. The event, which took place on Miss Yousafzai's?sixteenth birthday, brought?together hundreds of students from over 80 countries to call for quality education for every girl and boy in the world. The Assembly?was also addressed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; General Assembly President Vuk Jeremi?; and UN Special Envoy for Global Education?Gordon Brown.?

(12 July 2013, UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)

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