Malala Yousafzai
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Malala in October 2015
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| Native name | ملاله یوسفزۍ |
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12 July 1997 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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| Website | www |
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 Nobel Lecture by Malala Yousafzai
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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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