Malala Yousafzai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Malala Yousafzai in the Oval Office, 11.10.2013 Malala Yousafzai (born July 12, 1997[1] ) is an Anglo-Pakistani student and education activist. She is known for her activism for girls and womens rights, especially for being allowed to go to school. Yousafzai is originally from the town of Mingora in the Swat District. She was a victim of a gunshot attack in October 2012.[2] In 2009, at age 11, many people got to know her through a weblog of the BBC News Urdu language service. The BBC published translated writings about her life under Taliban rule. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Atta Ullah Khan, a Taliban gunman. She was given emergency treatment in Pakistan and then moved to England for more medical treatment. She had titanium plate put over hole in skull and cochlear implant to restore her hearing.[3] In May 2012 David Trumble, an award-winning artist, made a cartoon of Yousafzai as a Disney princess as part of a drawing of other feminist icons that he had made into princesses that was in the Huffington Post.[4] On 12 July 2013, at age 16, she made a speech at headquarters of the United Nations, stressing the right to education for all and for human rights and peace and non-violence against terrorism and intolerance citing the proverb: the pen is mightier than the sword. She was nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.[5] She has won a lot of prizes. She is the 2013 recipient of the Sakharov Prize. She was one of the winners of Glamour magazines Women of the Year. Lady Gaga, who was also a winner and was on the months cover, said that Yousafazi should have been on Novembers cover of Glamour instead of her.[6] On October she met President Obama, Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia in the Oval Office.[7] The Taliban have said that they still want to assassinate Yousafzai. In October 2013 a book about her life I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban was published, with her help. The book was banned in Pakistani private schools.[8] On 27 November 2013 Yousafazi was given the GG2 Hammer Award at the GG2 (Garavi Gujarat2) Leadership Awards 2013.[9] Yousafazi was chosen by TIME magazine as a candidate for 2013s Person of the Year.[10] She was nominated for the Worlds Childrens Prize for the Rights of the Child in 2014.[11] In 2014 Yousafazi will be given a Doctor of Civil Law degree by the University of Kings College.[12
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