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Learn how Malala began her fight for girls — from an education activist in Pakistan to the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate — and how she continues her campaign through Malala Fund. ... Malala's Story. ... Ziauddin Yousafzai, was determined to give me every opportunity a boy would have. 2008 My father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school in our village. I loved school. But everything changed when the Taliban took control of our town in Swat Valley. The extremists banned many things ...
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani ...
Jul 14, 2014 · Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s ban on the education of girls. She gained global attention when she survived an assassination attempt at age 15. In 2014 Yousafzai won a share of the Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate.
I Am Malala: the Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. Yousafzai , Malala.
On the morning of October 9, 2012, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban. Seated on a bus heading home from school, Malala was talking with her friends about schoolwork. Two members of the Taliban stopped the bus. A young bearded Talib asked for Malala by name, and fired three shots at her. One of the bullets entered and exited her head and lodged in her shoulder. Malala was seriously wounded.
Oct 7, 2013 · A year ago, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen. Her "crime" - to have defended the right of girls to be educated. Her full story can only now be told.
Nov 29, 2023 · Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country’s northern Swat Valley. For the first few years of her life, Yousafzai’s hometown remained a popular ...
Aug 17, 2017 · The life of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani blogger who survived being shot by the Taliban and became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. ... The story of her recovery - from delicate ...
Oct 9, 2014 · Update: Oct. 10, 7:06 a.m. ET. Pakistani youth activist Malala Yousafzai was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, an honor she shares with Kailash Satyarthi, who has long been campaigning ...
Oct 5, 2017 · Malala Yousafzai: So in Lancaster, in America, I met this young girl, and I think she did not know what my story was but she was telling me her story. She really inspired me because she went through a lot of difficulties in her country, [DR] Congo, and how she saw brutalities in front of her eyes.
