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girl school in the village run by her father, Malala Fund, an organization that is working
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Ziauddin Yousafzai. In 2008, a terrorist group and fighting so that all girls around the
called the Taliban took over their town, and world can have access to education. Later, in
they prohibited girls from going to school, October 2013, Malala released her
Malala was only 11 years old back then. In autobiography “I Am Malala: The Girl Who
September 2008, Malala gave her first speech Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the
in Peshawar, Pakistan; her speech was about Taliban.” In 2018, when Malala was 21 years
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how the Taliban took away her rights of old, she started attending Politics and
education. Malala continued to speak out for Economics at Oxford University.
all women’s right to education. She was Malala Yousafzai made a really great
awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize impact on the world. She started being an
in 2011, at 14 years old. activist for female education at the age of
After the speech, Malala and her family 11. She was powerful; she believed that
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found out about the Taliban’s death threat every human being deserves education, and
against her because of her activism for girls’ she sent out her message to the world. In
rights. On October 9, 2012, 15-year-old Malala her novel “I am Malala” she quoted, “If one
was riding a bus home with her friends. man can destroy everything, why can’t one
Suddenly a masked gunman boarded her bus; girl change it?” In addition to her Nobel
he shot Malala on the left side of her head, and Peace Prize, she was also in Time Magazine’s
it shattered her skull. She woke up in a “100 Most Influential People in the World” in
hospital in Birmingham, England after a 10-day 2013. Malala Yousafzai is changing the world
coma. Then on her 16th birthday in 2013, into a place where every single person,
Malala gave a speech at the United Nations. whether boy or girl, can have 12 years of
She highlighted her focus on women’s rights safe, and quality education.
and education. At her speech at the United
Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
announced July 12th as “Malala Day” in honour
of Malala’s activism for education rights. In
October 2014, she became the youngest person
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, at just 17
years old.
In 2013, Malala and her father founded the
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