Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani children's education activist · Pakistan · Activists · Born 1997 · age 29

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At 17, she became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt for advocating girls' education in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The gunman's bullet turned a schoolgirl blogger into the world's most recognized voice for the right to learn.

A life in dates

2021BBC 100 WomenAward2017Ellis Island Medal of HonorAward2016Order of the SmileAward2014“This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace.”In their words10 December 2014Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014Read the whole statement

“Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them.”In their words10 December 2014Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014Read the whole statement

“Why is it that countries which we call strong" are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace?”In their words10 December 2014Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014Read the whole statement

“I’m feeling honored that I am being chosen as a Nobel laureate and I have been honored with this - this precious award, the Nobel Peace Prize.”In their words10 October 2014Transcript Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech on October 10, 2014Read the whole statement

“It does not matter what’s the color of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion you believe in.”In their words10 October 2014Transcript Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech on October 10, 2014Read the whole statement

“Through my story I want to tell other children all around the world that they should stand up for their rights.”In their words10 October 2014Transcript Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech on October 10, 2014Read the whole statement

Nobel Peace PrizeAward2013Ambassador of Conscience AwardAwardAnna Politkovskaya AwardAwardEuropean Human Rights PrizeAwardHonorary Canadian CitizenshipAwardHumanitarian of the YearAwardInternational Children's Peace PrizeAwardSakharov PrizeAwardSimone de Beauvoir PrizeAwardTime 100Award2011National Malala Peace PrizeAward1997Born12 July 1997

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Yousafzai with her father (left) and Martin Schulz in Strasbourg, 2013

From left to right: Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah have influenced Yousafzai.

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, one of Yousafzai's sources of inspiration

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and their daughter Malia meet Yousafzai in the Oval Office, 11 October 2013.

Yousafzai on a special visit to Strasbourg in November 2013

Malala with Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in 2015

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Malala Yousafzai

10 statements, newest first

This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace.
Dec 10, 2014, Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014, Own words
Education is one of the blessings of life - and one of its necessities.
Dec 10, 2014, Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014, Own words
Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them.
Dec 10, 2014, Nobel lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2014, Own words

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Awards

BBC 100 Women2021

Jane Addams Children's Book Award2018

Ellis Island Medal of Honor2017

Order of the Smile2016

Nobel Peace Prize2014

Philadelphia Liberty Medal2014

Sakharov Prize2013

Simone de Beauvoir Prize2013

Anna Politkovskaya Award2013

United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights2013

European Human Rights Prize2013

International Children's Peace Prize2013

Index Award2013

Ambassador of Conscience Award2013

Secularist of the Year2013

Catalonia International Prize2013

Humanitarian of the Year2013

Honorary Canadian Citizenship2013

Time 1002013

Memminger Freedom Prize 15252013

Fred and Anne Jarvis Award2013

Commander of the Order of Bravery2012

National Malala Peace Prize2011

Four Freedoms Award - Freedom from Fear

Family

Parents

Malala Yousafzai

Partners

Spouse Asser Malik

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About this person

Born in 1997 to education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai in Swat, she was named after an Afghan folk heroine and began chronicling life under Taliban rule at 11, blogging for BBC Urdu under a pseudonym. A 2009 New York Times documentary raised her profile; by 2011 she'd won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and earned a nomination from Desmond Tutu for the International Children's Peace Prize. On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head - she was airlifted unconscious to Birmingham, where she recovered and never went home. From that hospital city she co-founded the Malala Fund with Shiza Shahid, co-wrote the bestseller I Am Malala in 2013, and shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with India's Kailash Satyarthi. She finished secondary school at Edgbaston High, read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, graduating in 2020, and returned in 2023 as Linacre College's youngest ever Honorary Fellow.

Country

Pakistan

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