Malala Yousafzai, Activist for Children, Activist for Women’s Rights
Malala Yousafzai represents a voice for children and women in terms of their rights, especially in relation to education. Born in 1997, Malala started at the age of 11 to advocate girls’ rights to education in Pakistan when the Taliban started to stop girls from attending school. As a result of her activism, the Taliban attacked her in 2012 on her way home from school on a bus. But this did not deter Malala.
Leaving Pakistan for the United Kingdom for treatment in 2012 after the attack, she began schooling in Birmingham and has since then continued her advocacy for girls’ rights. In 2014, she was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest person to receive the prize at the age of 17. She was accepted to the University of Oxford in 2017 to study philosophy, politics and economics. Malala is our Woman of the Week because she represents audacity and hope for the future of girls’ rights and education.
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Biography.com Editors. Malala Yousafzai Biography, Fri. 15 Feb 2019,
https://www.biography.com/people/malala-yousafzai-21362253
Malala Yousafzai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Fri. 15 Feb
2019, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/biographical/
