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Malala Yousuf Zai she is the youngest Nobel laureate she was born on July 12 1997 in Mingora Pakistan her father's name was Theoden Yousef CI and mother's name was tor Pekka yousafzai she has two younger brothers her family ran of the chain of schools her father an educational activist Tata Pashto English and Urdu her father sends early on that there was something special about Malala and encouraged her to think and express herself freely she started speaking

about education rights in 2008 when she was just 11 years old she addressed an the audience at a local Press Club in Peshawar and questioned the audacity of the Taliban to snatch away her basic right to education at the behest of her father, she began writing an anonymous a blog for the BBC Urdu website under the pseudonym Gul Makai the idea of a schoolgirl blogging about the Taliban's growing influence in Swat was originated by Omar Ahmed Khan of BBC Lulu to blog about the Taliban was a very risky decision but the see out and Yousuf side himself insisted that eleven-year-old Malala do it her first blog entry was posted on 3 January 2009 she wrote about how fewer girls dared to attend school because of the Taliban and how the Taliban had forced the school shut she continued writing when the school later reopened and she along with her friends could again attend classes as they did before then she gave her school exams and ended

                                                 the blog in March 2009 even though she

wrote the blog anonymously her identity was later revealed and she became a

the popular teenage activist who was often called to give speeches over the next a couple of years she continued to gain in popularity even receiving an award from

the Prime Minister of Pakistan the Taliban was increasingly becoming agitated with this young crusader and she routinely received death threats when she was returning home from school on 9 October 2012 a Taliban gunman shot her in the head the bullet went through her head a neck to end in her shoulder two of her friends were also injured in the attack she survived the shooting and received media treatment at a hospital in Peshawar and was later transferred to Birmingham England for further care eventually, she recovered and resumed her

studies at the all-girls edge Weston High School in Birmingham her ordeal
with the Taliban and her miraculous survival led to an outpouring of support
from all corners of the world and helped her in furthering her cause she gave a speech at the United Nation on her 16th birthday in 2013 the United Nation dubbed the event Malala day the same year her autobiography a Malala

the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban was published she continues her activism with even more fervor and spoke at Harvard University and the Oxford Union in 2013 in July 2014 she advocated for the rights of girls by speaking at the girl's summit in London she was bestowed with Satara issue yet Pakistan's third highest civilian bravery award in October 2012 the Clinton Foundation presented her with the Clinton global citizen award in 2013 the European Parliament honored her with the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 2013 she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace

Prize along with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education in 2017 she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada, she is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in philosophy politics and economics at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford when the whole the world is silent even one voice becomes powerful said Malala Yousuf Zai

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