Malala Yousafzai and her struggle for girls' education
Malala Yousafzai, born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan, campaigns for women’s rights, especially for girls' education. She lived in Mingora, a city in northwestern Pakistan, a place under the influence of the Taliban.
His history
She is known to have been shot on 9 October 2012 by Taliban who were trying to ban girls' schooling in her country, Pakistan. She was shot in the head when she was on the bus.
For her struggle and courage, she will become the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014. Raised mainly by his father Ziauddin Yousafzai who campaigns for education, writes poems and owns a girls' school. He is the one who will encourage him to testify at the age of 11 anonymously on the BBC blog (under a pseudonym), his testimony is entitled “Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl”. In which she described her life and her views on the domination of the Pakistani Taliban.
In October 2013, his book I, Malala, I Fight for Education and Resist the Taliban
was released in 21 countries at the same time.
His appointments and honours
In 2009, she received the foundation’s International Children for Peace Award in her name, which began receiving donations to help build and improve schools.
In 2011, he was awarded the first National Youth Peace Prize by the Pakistani government, the name of which changed to the Malala Prize
.
In 2012, he was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom.
For its 16th anniversary, on July 12, 2013, the UN is organizing an event in its honour entitled Malala Day to promote education in the world and more specifically that of girls.
In 2013, in Dublin, the Ambassador of Conscience Prize was awarded to him. And in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s Sakharovprize for freedom of thought. As well as the United Nations Human Rights Prize and the International Catalonia Prize.
In 2014, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2015, Davis Guggenheim released a documentary entitled “My name is Malala” about his childhood.
In 2017, she was designated by the United Nations to become the youngest Messenger of Peace. Then, she is admitted as a student at Oxford, after obtaining grades that allow her to A-level.
She graduated from Oxford in 2020.
This makes Malala a feminist figure for her struggle for the education of girls in particular.