Malala Yousafzai (born 12 July 1997[1]) is aPakistanistudent and an impactfuleducationactivist. She is known for her activism forgirls' andwomen's rights, especially for her campaign to allow girls to go to school. She was a victim of agunshot attack in October 2012.[2]
Yousafzai is the youngest person to have won theNobel Peace Prize. She was awarded the prize in October 2014, when she was just 17 years old.[3] She was nominated for the prize the year before that.[4]
On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in anassassination attempt byAtta Ullah Khan, a Taliban gunman. She was given emergency treatment in Pakistan and then moved toGreat Britain for moremedical treatment.
On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from theQueen Elizabeth Hospital inBirmingham to continue to recover at her family's temporary home in theWest Midlands.[5][6] She had two five-hour long operations on 2 February 2013. She had atitanium plate put over the hole in her skull and acochlear implant so she could hear again.[7][8]
In May 2012David Trumble, an award-winning artist, made a cartoon of Yousafzai as aDisney princess as part of a drawing of otherfeminist icons that he had made into princesses that was theHuffington Post.[9]
The Taliban have said that they still want to assassinate Yousafzai. She campaigned for girls' rights and education. Many officials did not agree with her campaign.
She was one of the winners of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year.Lady Gaga, who was also a winner and was on the month's cover, said that Yousafzai should have been on November's cover of Glamour instead of her.[13]
On 27 November 2013 Yousafzai was given the GG2 Hammer Award at the GG2 (Garavi Gujarat 2) Leadership Awards 2013.[14]
Malala was chosen byTIME magazine as a candidate for 2013's Person of the Year.[15]
Also in 2014, theGovernment of Canada announced Yousafzai would become anhonorary citizen of Canada. The ceremony was supposed to happen on 22 October of that year, but was cancelled because ofa shooting at Parliament Hill.[17] Three years later, on 12 April 2017, she received her certificate of citizenship fromJustin Trudeau, who called her "the newest and possibly bravest citizen of Canada".[18] She would go on to speak to theParliament of Canada that day, calling for Canada to lead the world in bringing education to females and refugees and children.[19] Here is a quote from one of Malala's speeches: "There is a world out there that will be fair to us all."
