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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil and spokesperson for women’s right to education. In retaliation for her high profile campaign for education and criticism of the Taliban, she was shot in the head at close range by a Taliban gunman.
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She survived the gunshot wound and has become a leading spokesperson for human rights, education and women’s rights. She has received numerous peace awards and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist.
Early Life Malala
Malala was born (12 July 1997) in Mingora, the Swat District of north-west Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family.
She was named Malala, which means ‘grief-stricken’ after a famous female Pashtun poet and warrior from Afghanistan.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai is a poet and runs a chain of public schools. He is a leading educational advocate himself.
In 2009, Malala began writing an anonymous blog for the BBC expressing her views on educa