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Malala Yousafzai Profile, Early Life, Education, Achievements, Awards, Struggle
Malala Yousafzai Biography, Education, Early Life, Education, Struggle, Achievements, Awards
Malala Yousafzai is well known for a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize Laureate.
Malala Yousafzai is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) province into a lower-middle-class a Sunni Muslim family.
Malala Yousafzai wrote an anonymous diary about life under Taliban rule in North-west Pakistan and she was the shot in the head by militants for daring to go to school.
In 2014 she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel peace prize.
Malala Yousafzai's Early Life, Education and Achievement Awards
Malala Yousafzai educated mostly by her father Ziauddin Yousafzai who is a poet and school owner.
Malala Yousafzai would like to become a Doctor, though later her father encouraged her to become a politician instead.
Malala Yousafzai came to public attention though she wrote a heartfelt diary (Published is on BBC URDU) in her age 11-12 in the year 2009 which chronicled her desire to remain in education for girls to have the chance to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban and was flown to Britain for her treatment.
The activist later started her school in Britain and won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17.
Mala Yousafzai is the youngest person to win the Nobel Prize.
Malala Yousafzai studies Politics, Philosophy and Economics at new Oxford College at Oxford University.
