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Malala Yousafzai Women’s Rights Activist

Malala Yousafzai is an education activist known for her fight for the right to education for women. In her fight, she has battled threats, survived death and has emerged as a heroic human being. She has shown utmost courage towards the people stopping her and has become a worldwide symbol of peace. Malala was born on in July 1997 in a Muslim family in Mingora, Pakistan. For all her efforts, she is now in the heart of every single child who is helpless, who is uneducated and who is fighting for his/her rights.

 Yousafzai attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. But soon, the local Taliban took control of the area and banned girls from attending school. She started speaking about education rights as early as September zoo8, when her father took her to speak at the local press club.

 In early 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban’s threats for no education for girls. She detailed the story to various forms of media, giving interviews in print and on television. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children’s Peace Prize in zone That same year, she was awarded Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize.

In October zoiz, aged 15, she became the subject of the world’s headlines after she was shot by a member of the Taliban. A gunman stopped her on her way to school and shot her three times. After the attack, she was taken to England where she recovered from this near-death incident. Her being shot and refusal to stand down from what she believed was right, brought to light the plight of millions around the world. The attack which was aimed to stop and silence Malala, instead, resulted in a national and international outpouring of support. She became “the most famous teenager in the world.”

On her 16th birthday, she gave a speech at the UN in New York, where she urged leaders to wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. In her honour and righteousness to the approach, 14 July is observed as Malala Day. It is not a day just to celebrate Malala Yousafzai, but a day for all children, everywhere to raise their voices and be heard. Unfortunately, the Taliban still considers Yousafzai a target. But she continues to advocate the cause of education for all.

Malala is now studying in Britain and pursuing her campaign alongside. Yousafzai’s memoir ‘I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban’, was published in October 2013. The book was regarded as ‘fearless’ and `riveting’. She was invited by Queen Elizabeth to Buckingham Palace and also by Barack Obama to the White House, where she re-instated that education must be accessed by children around the world including girls. She wants to help every single girl in the world striving to get an education. She, moreover, has established the Malala Fund to help the world out of poverty and ignorance. Many eminent celebrities have come forward to contribute to her Fund.

Her ambition is to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Her hero is Benazir Bhutto, who too was proved a fearless personality. Malala was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in zo13, but did not win it. She was again nominated for the same in 2014 and this time, the committee awarded her the peace prize. She is now the youngest person ever to win a Nobel prize. Malala is determined to bring a change in the condition of women all around the world as she strongly remarks, “So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”

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