Malala Yousafzai (in Pashto , ملاله یوسفزۍ/məˈlaːlə. Jusəfˈzəj /; Malālah Yūsafzay born in Mingora, Pakistan, July 12, 1997 ) is a Pakistani student, activist and blogger. She was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu.
Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, at 17, she is the youngest person ever to be awarded that award in any category.
Biography[]
Born in Mingora, Jaiber Pastunjuá, Pakistan. Daughter of Toorpekai and Ziauddin Yousafzai, she has two brothers. She speaks Pashto and English, and is known for her activism in favor of civil rights, especially women's rights in the Swat River Valley, where the Taliban regime has banned girls from attending school. At the age of 13, Yousafzai achieved notoriety by writing a blog for the BBC under the pseudonym Gul Makai, explaining his life under the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan regime. (TTP) and their attempts to regain control of the valley, after the military occupation forced them to leave the rural areas. The Taliban forced the closure of private schools and the education of girls was banned between 2003 and 2009.
In the 2009 documentary Loss of classes, the death of women's education (directed by Adam Ellick and Irfan Asharaf of the New York Times), shows Malala and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, and how the education of women is difficult or impossible in those areas.
On December 10, 2014, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize simultaneously with the Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, Malala is thus, historically, the youngest winner of this award.
Attempt at heroism[]
Malala he recovers in the hospital after attack
On October 9, 2012 in Mingora, she was the victim of an attack by a militiaman of the TTP, a terrorist group linked to the Taliban, who, after boarding the vehicle that served as a school bus, repeatedly shot her with a pistol, hitting her in the skull and neck, for which she had to be operated on. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said they will try to kill her again.
Two students were also injured along with Malala as they rode the school bus home. She was airlifted to a military hospital. Around the school where the attacked girls were studying, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the incident. The Pakistani and world media have given it wide coverage. On November 10, 2012, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the gunman who shot Yousafzai had been identified.
The attack immediately provoked international condemnation and Malala Yusafzai was supported by Asif Ali Zardari, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Susan Rice, Desmond Tutu, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Welch Bush, Madonna, Selena Gomez, among others.
Recovery[]
On October 15, 2012, she was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, to continue her recovery.
Although he had to continue the rehabilitation and underwent reconstructive surgery, he was discharged from the hospital on January 4, 2013.
After having a titanium plate and hearing device implanted, Malala returned to classes at a secondary school in England.
Book[]
- I am Malala (2013). Autobiography written with British journalist Cristina Lamp. (in (in (in
Activism[]
In May 2014, she participated in the campaign for the liberation of Nigerian girls, kidnapped while studying, by an Islamic group that rejects the education of women. Malala is an advocate for girls' universal right to education.
Awards[]
Malala Yousafzai with Malia Ann, Michelle, and Barack Obama in 2013.
Sakharov Prize in 2013.
These are some of the outstanding awards, nominations, works and accolades with which Malala Yousafzai was honored.
- 2011, National Peace Prize, for her advocacy for girls' education, Pakistan. (in
- 2011, International Children's Peace Award Nomination, first Pakistani girl nominated by the children's rights group KidsRights Foundation.
- 2013, Simone de Beauvoir Award, France. (in
- 2013, Nobel Peace Prize Nomination, youngest person to be nominated. (in
- 2013, UNICEF Award of Spain for her defense of girls' right to education. (in
- 2013, Tipperary International Peace Prize, Great Britain. (in
- 2013, Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International. (in
- 2013, International Children's Peace Prize, Holland. (in
- 2013, International Award Catalonia, Spain. (in
- September 27, 2013, Clinton Global Citizen Award by the Clinton Foundation, United States. (in
- 2013, Peter Gomes Award from Harvard University. (in
- 2013, European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Conscience. [1] (in (in
- 2013, National Award for Equality and Non-Discrimination from the National Council to Prevent Discrimination of Mexico. (in (in
- 2014, Nobel Peace Prize "for his fight against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."