Pakistani Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai was born on Oct 27, 1997, in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan. Her surname is commonly pronounced as 'Yousafzai' but her family name is pronounced as 'Yousef'. She is currently a schoolgirl and well-known activist for equal rights for girls’ education and against the Taliban. She has been shot by the Taliban in the head and the chest on Oct 9, 2012, in Mingora, and is in critical condition in a UK medical facility.

girls' is a young campaigner for education and human rights in the area of Pakistan and she is considered the youngest woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. She is a human rights activist and education campaigner, and an advocate for women's and girls' education, particularly in Pakistan. In 2012 Malala was shot in the head while on her way to school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Her injuries left her with permanent brain damage, and she spent three months recovering at a British hospital.

Malala's case was a catalyst for the international community to act and it led to the launch of the “I am Malala” campaign in 2012. The United Nations declared Malala Day on October 9, 2016, which was the day she was shot. More than 500 million people around the world are being mobilized to support Malala and her goals for the future. She wants to make sure that girls around the world have equal access to education.

Yousafzai became an advocate for children's rights and equality when she was shot by the Taliban in October 2012. She was shot in the head and the chest and was taken to the UK for treatment, where she remained in a critical condition for three months. She was 15 years old at the time of the attack. The Taliban issued a statement saying there was no justification for the attack and that it was meant to silence Yousafzai's voice.

education, especially girls' education in the tribal areas of Pakistan, has been the cause of concern to the Taliban since its inception. The girls are often called "tulips" because they are seen as a symbol of beauty and purity. When the Taliban took over the region they required all girls to stop attending school and banned girls from leaving their homes without a male relative. They also demanded that a girl had to have a male guardian to enroll in school and that there had to be a male teacher for each class.

Malala is now living in Britain with her family where she is being looked after in a Birmingham hospital. However, she had to move to a specially constructed facility in Glasgow called the Thomas Young Centre, where she is recovering from her injuries. Yousafzai’s mother, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a former teacher who taught Yousafzai at primary school. He is now Yousafzai’s father, and she has two siblings, a younger brother, Arif, and a younger sister, Zeenat.

Peace Noble Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural or social advances. The will of the Swedish philanthropist Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed in the will of Nobel to be awarded "without distinction of race, color, or creed". It was first awarded in 1901.

Malala Yousafzai was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her activism for education and women's rights. At age 17, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. The prize was announced on October 10, 2014, making Malala the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel Prize. She is the second Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize after the mathematician, physicist, and education campaigner Professor Abdus Salam who won the Nobel Physics Prize in 1979.

Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her battle against the suppression of children and younger human beings and for the proper of all youngsters to schooling. Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. Yousafzai was only 17 when she won the prize, making her its youngest ever recipient.

Malala Yousafzai Activities

Malala Yousafzai's activism has focused on imparting education to children and young people, especially girls; she has continued to advocate for girls' education, even when it meant risking her own life. Yousafzai was just 11 years old when she began to publicly write about the importance of girls' education. She began blogging for BBC Urdu when she was just 12 years old. In 2009, when she was just 13 years old, she started the Malala Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to girls' education in Pakistan.

Malala Yousafzai has been a vocal advocate for girls' education in her native Pakistan, which has the second-largest gender gap in the world. Yousafzai has also addressed the United Nations on the subject, and she has written a best-selling autobiography, "I am Malala". She was also the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.