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Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai 2015.jpg
Malala in October 2015
Native name ملاله یوسفزۍ
Born (1997-07-12) 12 July 1997 (age 19)
Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Residence Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nationality Pakistani
Citizenship 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
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Awards
Website www.malala.org
External video
Malala Yousafzai and Kaliash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony..jpg
Nobel Lecture by Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (S.St) (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ[məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Malala's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

Born in Swat District, Pakistan, her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Malala wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. Malala rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu.


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