Who is Malala?
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist. She won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17.
As a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland of Swat, Pakistan, where the Taliban has banned girls from attending school at times, she is the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has now grown into an international movement.
On 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai’s 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event “Malala Day”.
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