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Malala Yousafzai

April 24, 2017No Comments8 Mins Read
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As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Personal
Name: Malala Yousafzai
Nationality: Pakistani
Details
Location: Pakistan
Native name: ملاله یوسفزۍ
Born : 12 July 1997
Place: Mingora, Swat, Pakistan
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize Sakharov Prize Simone de Beauvoir Prize Honorary Canadian citizenship National Youth Peace Prize Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Residence : Birmingham, England, UK
Nationality : Pakistani
Education : Edgbaston High School
Occupation: Student, humanitarian, former blogger for BBC Urdu and Activist
Organization : The Malala Fund
Known for: Activist for the right to education, especially female education
Parent(s) : Tor Pekai Yousafzai (mother) Ziauddin Yousafzai (father)
Website: https://www.malala.org/
Skin Color: Fairy
Married: No
Education: Edgbaston High School
Sun Sign: Cancer
Religion: Sunni Islam
Famous As: Youngest Nobel Laureate
Also Known as: Gul Makai,
Also listed in: Women’s Rights Activists, Children’s Rights Activists

Malala YousafzaiMalala Yousafzai displaying her medal during the award ceremonyMalala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin meeting with parents of the Nigerian girlsWhen Malala was attacked in SwatMalala Yousafzai (C), the 16-year-old who  holds a copy of the United Nations charter during a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Table of Contents

  • Biography
  • Work
  • After the Attack
  • Back at School
  • United Nations Petition
  • 2013 Establishing the Malala Fund
  • 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Documentary
  • Awards and Honours
  • Returns To Pakistan

Biography

Nobel Peace Prize Recipiant Malala Yousafzai Is A Coward And A Hypocrite
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Born on July 12, 1997, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls’ education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. For the first few years of her life, her hometown remained a popular tourist spot that was known for its summer festivals. However the area began to change as the Taliban tried to take control. [1] Biography Biography

Work

Much of the world’s population, especially in poor countries, is made up of children and young people. To achieve a peaceful world, it is crucial that the rights of children and young people be respected. Injustices perpetrated against children contribute to the spread of conflicts to future generations. Already at eleven years of age Malala Yousafzai fought for girls’ right to education. After having suffered an attack on her life by Taliban gunmen in 2012, she has continued her struggle and become a leading advocate of girls’ rights.[2] Malala works

After the Attack

Malala Yousafzai with family
She was in the United Kingdom, Yousafzai was taken out of a medically induced coma. Though she would require multiple surgeries—including repair of a facial nerve to fix the paralyzed left side of her face—she had suffered no major brain damage. In March 2013, she was able to begin attending school in Birmingham.
In October 2014, Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In congratulating Yousafzai, Pakistani Prime Minister  Nawaz Sharif  said: “She is (the) pride of Pakistan, she has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is unparalleled and unequaled. Girls and boys of the world should take lead from her struggle and commitment.” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described her as “a brave and gentle advocate of peace who through the simple act of going to school became a global teacher.”[3] Mlala Yousafzai biography

For her 18th birthday on July 12, 2015, also called Malala Day, the young activist continued to take action on global education by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon. Its expenses covered by the Malala Fund, the school was designed to admit nearly 200 girls from the ages of 14 to 18. “Today on my first day as an adult, on behalf of the world’s children, I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets,” Yousafzai proclaimed in one of the school’s classrooms.

Back at School

She began attending Edgbaston High School in March and her father has been given a job with the Pakistani consulate in Birmingham for three years.
But she has continued her campaign and taken it around the world.
A fund set up in her name helps children in education around the world. Among other trips, she has travelled to Nigeria, meeting President Goodluck Jonathan to press for action to free the 200 girls held by Boko Haram Islamist militants.[4] Back at school

United Nations Petition

Malala Yousafzai
On 15 October, UN Special Envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, visited Malala whilst she was in hospital and launched a petition in her name – ‘In support for what Malala fought for.’

Using the slogan “I am Malala” the petition contains three demands

  • We call on  Pakistan  to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child.
  • We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls.
  • We call on international organisations to ensure the world’s 61 million out-of-school children are in education by the end of 2015.[5] Malala yusaf zai

2013 Establishing the Malala Fund

Malala became a global advocate for the millions of girls being denied a formal education because of social, economic, legal and political factors. In 2013, Malala and Ziauddin co-founded the Malala Fund to bring awareness to the social and economic impact of girls’ education and to empower girls to raise their voices, to unlock their potential and to demand change.
[6] Establishing the malala fund

2014 Nobel Peace Prize

Malala accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December, 2014 with Indian children’s rights and education advocate Kailash Satyarthi. Malala contributed her entire prize money of more than $500,000 to financing the creation of a secondary school for girls in Pakistan.

Documentary

In October 2015, a documentary about Yousafzai’s life was released. HE NAMED ME MALALA, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman), gives viewers an intimate look into the life of Malala, her family, and her commitment to supporting education for girls around the world.

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[7] The girl who  wanted to school 
  • 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[8] Its shorlist for the person of the year 2012
  • Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice, November 2012[9] Teresa award given away
  • Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action, December 2012[10] Malala yousafzai got mumbai award
  • 2012: Top Name 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)[11] Memminger Freiheitspreis
  • Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship, March 2013
  • Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers, March 2013[12] The Fred and Anne jarvis award
  • 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
  • Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London (2013
  • Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International
  • 2013: International Children’s Peace Prize, KidsRights Foundation 
  • 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[13] Clinton global citizen award
  • 2014: Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[14] Mala Teen shoot by Taliban
  • 2014: Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi[15] Malala award
  • 2014: Philadelphia Liberty Medal
  • 2014: One of Time Magazine “The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014”
  • 2014: Honorary Canadian citizenship
  • 2015: Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album
  • 2015: Asteroid 316201 Malala named in her honour.
  • 2016: Honorary president of the students union of the University of Sheffield
  • 2016: DAWN newspaper reported that Yousafzai’s biography page on Wikipedia was the most read of the year amongst Pakistani personalities.[16] Malala yousaf Zai award
  • 2017: Youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace
  • 2017: Received honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa

Returns To Pakistan

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants. Ms Yousafzai, now aged 20 and a vocal human rights activist, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012. She is expected to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Details of the trip have been kept secret “in view of the sensitivity”, an official told AFP news agency. Pakistani television broadcast video that appeared to show her with her parents at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security. The trip is expected to last four days and she arrived with officials from her Malala Fund group, local media report. It has not been confirmed if she will visit her family’s hometown of Swat in the country’s rural north-west during her visit. [17] Returns to pakistan

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