'We will never forget you,' Malala writes to kidnapped Nigerian girls

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo December 11, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday told Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants they will never be forgotten and to never lose hope.

"Please know this: we will never forget you. We will always stand with you," 17-year-old Yousafzai wrote in an open letter to the missing girls. "We will not rest until you have been reunited with your families."