Malala Yousafzai is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For her support of female education in Pakistan, she was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history. Her Nobel Peace Prize money was used to rebuild 65 schools in Gaza.
In recognition of her bravery, the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon designated November 10th as Malala Day.
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی ; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj] ; born 12 July 1997), also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani Pashtun activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become “the most prominent citizen” of the country.
In late 2008, Aamer Ahmed Khan of the BBC Urdu website and his colleagues came up with a novel way of covering the Taliban’s growing influence in Swat. They decided to ask a schoolgirl to blog anonymously about her life there. Their correspondent in Peshawar, Abdul Hai Kakar, had been in touch with a local school teacher, Ziauddin Yousafzai, but could not find any students willing to do so, as it was considered too dangerous by their families. Finally, Yousafzai suggested his own daughter, 11-year-old Malala. At the time, Taliban militants led by Maulana Fazlullah were taking over the Swat Valley, banning television, music, girls’ education, and women from going shopping. Bodies of beheaded policemen were being displayed in town squares. At first, a girl named Aisha from her father’s school agreed to write a diary, but then the girl’s parents stopped her from doing it because they feared Taliban reprisals. The only alternative was Yousafzai, four years younger than the original volunteer, and in seventh grade at the time. Editors at the BBC unanimously agreed.
Her father Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai was also threatened with death for her actions. was also threatened to die for her actions.
