Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth12 July 1997
CityMingora, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.