Malala Yousafzai
One person can change the world
Malala was born on July 12 1997 in Mingora town in the Swat District of north west Pakistan
One year ago schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen - her "crime", to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated. The world reacted in horror, but after weeks in intensive care Malala survived. Her full story can now be told.
She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai received her Nobel peace prize on Wednesday. Malala, now 17, became the youngest winner of the prize after the Nobel committee acknowledged her 'heroic struggle' for girls' right to an education. She was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 after drawing attention to the issu
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