Malala Yousufzai

Malala Yousafzai
Yousafzai in October 2015
Native name	ملاله یوسفزۍ
Born	(1997-07-12) 12 July 1997 (age 20) Mingora, Swat, Pakistan
Residence	Birmingham, England, UK
Nationality	Pakistani
Education	Khushal Public School (2012) Edgbaston High School (2013–2017) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from October 2017)
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
Parent(s)	Tor Pekai Yousafzai (mother) Ziauddin Yousafzai (father)
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize Sakharov Prize Simone de Beauvoir Prize National Youth Peace Prize Sitara-i-Imtiaz (See Full list)
Website	www.malala.org

External video

Nobel Lecture by Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (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 Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement.

Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she 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. She 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.