Youth will lead the charge for justice in 2013

THE new year began — just as 2012 ended — with young people on the march.

In the last week, it was young Indians, shocked by the murder of a medical student, who dominated the street rallies that are demanding proper protection for women against rape.

Before that, it was thousands of young Pakistanis who responded to the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, forming the majority in the mass protests calling for an end to the discrimination that locks girls out of school.