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Malala Yousafzai ( born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
Her family runs a chain of schools in the region. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. Yousafzai boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. A gunman asked for her by name, then pointed a pistol at her and fired three shots. One bullet hit the left side of Yousafzai's forehead, travelled under her skin through the length of her face, and then went into her shoulder.In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England,
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GIRLS SCHOOLS REOPEN
On 25 February, Malala wrote on her blog that she and her classmates "played a lot in class and enjoyed ourselves like we used to before". Attendance at Malala class was up to 19 of 27 pupils by 1 March, but the Taliban were still active in the area. Shelling continued, and relief goods meant for displaced people were looted. Only two days later, Malala wrote that there was a skirmish between the military and Taliban, and the sounds of mortar shells could be heard: "People are again scared that the peace may not last for long". Some people are saying that the peace agreement is not permanent, it is just a break in fighting".
On 9 March, Yousafzai wrote about a science paper that she performed well on, and added that the Taliban were no longer searching vehicles as they once did. Her blog ended on 12 March 2009.
Early political career and activism
Yousafzai was interviewed on the national Pashto-language station. She made a second appearance on Capital Talk on 19 August 2009. Her BBC blogging identity was being revealed in articles by December 2009. She also began appearing on television to publicly advocate for female education.
In October 2011, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African activist, nominated Yousafzai for the International Children's Peace Prize of the Dutch international children's advocacy group KidsRights Foundation. She was the first Pakistani girl to be nominated for the award. The announcement said, "Malala dared to stand up for herself and other girls and used national and international media to let the world know girls should also have the right to go to school".
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Yousafzai has been awarded the following national and international honours:
- 2011 International Children's Peace Prize (nominee)
- 2011 National Youth Peace Prize
- Anne Frank Award for Moral Courage, January 2012
- Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's third-highest civilian bravery award, October 2012
- Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker, November 2012
- 2012 Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist
- Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice, November 2012
- Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action, December 2012
- Top Name of 2012 in Annual Survey of Global English, January 2013
- Simone de Beauvoir Prize, January 2013
- Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525, March 2013 (conferred on 7 December 2013 in Oxford
- Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship, March 2013
- Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers, March 2013
- Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer, April 2013
- One of Time 's "100 Most Influential People In The World", April 2013
- Premi Internacional Catalunya Award of Catalonia, May 2013
- Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), June 2013
- International Campaigner of the Year, 2013 Observer Ethical Awards, June 2013
- 2012 Tipperary International Peace Award, Ireland Tipperary Peace Convention, August 2013
- International Children’s Peace Prize, KidsRights, 2013
- Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London (2013)
- Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International
- 2013 Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation
- Harvard Foundation’s Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University
- 2013 Anna Politkovskaya Award – Reach All Women In War
- 2013 Reflections of Hope Award – Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
- 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – awarded by the European Parliament
- 2013 honorary Master of Arts degree awarded by the University of Edinburgh
- 2013 Pride of Britain (October)
- 2013 Glamour magazine Woman of the Year
- 2013 GG2 Hammer Award at GG2 Leadership Awards (November)
- 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination
- 2014 Nominee for World Children's Prize also known as Children's Nobel Prize
- 2014 Awarded Honorary Life Membership by the PSEU (Ireland)
- 2014 Skoll Global Treasure Award
- 2014 Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi
- 2014 Philadelphia Liberty Medal
- In 2014 she was named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by Time magazine.
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