Noble
Prize in Peace
2014
Malala
Yousafzai was born July 12, 1997. She is
an Anglo-Pakistani student and education activist. She is known for her
activism for girls' and women's rights, especially for being allowed to go to
school. Yousafzai is originally from the town of Mingora in the Swat District.
She was a victim of a gunshot attack in October 2012.[2]
In 2009, at
age 11, many people got to know her through a blog of the BBC News' Urdu
language service. The BBC published translated writings about her life under
Taliban rule. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an
assassination attempt by Atta Ullah Khan, a Taliban gunman. She was given
emergency treatment in Pakistan and then moved to England for more medical treatment.
She had titanium plate put over hole in skull and cochlear implant to restore
her hearing.
On 12 July
2013, at age 16, she made a speech at headquarters of the United Nations,
stressing the right to education for all and for human rights and peace and
non-violence against terrorism and intolerance citing the proverb: "the
pen is mightier than the sword".
She was
nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. She has won a lot of prizes. She is
the 2013 recipient of the Sakharov Prize. She was one of the winners of Glamour
magazine's Women of the Year. Lady Gaga, who was also a winner and was on the
month's cover, said that Yousafazi should have been on November's cover of
Glamour instead of her.
On October
she met President Obama, Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia in the Oval
Office.
The Taliban
have said that they still want to assassinate Yousafzai.
In October
2013 a book about her life I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and
Was Shot by the Taliban was published, with her help. The book was banned in
Pakistani private schools.
On 27
November 2013 Yousafazi was given the GG2 Hammer Award at the GG2 Leadership Awards 2013.
Yousafazi
was chosen by TIME magazine as a candidate for 2013's Person of the Year.
She was
nominated for the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child in 2014.
She
continues to travel the world, giving speeches about girls' and children's
rights. She raises money for her causes, and still attends high school when she
can. Shs is, after all, only 17. In 2014 Yousafazi has won Nobel Peace Prize,
the youngest person ever to do so.
