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Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley. Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education.  In 2012 Malala got shot in the head traveling from home to school,but she survived. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize. Malala gave a speech about her rights and all women to an education. Malala´s Day is in honor of the young leader’s activism to ensure education for all children

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When Malala got shot in the head she still continues to make sure girls get the access on education.When her education was taken away she knew she had to stand out for all women futures. She also knew that she had to get something done.Since no one was standing out for there rights she decided to do it. Just because she was young many people doubted her because of her age. Malala spoke up for girls education and talking about her experience under the Taliban´s conditions.Later on she won Pakistan´s first National Youth Peace prize in 2011 for her efforts. Malala was the one who stood up for all girls education and their futures

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"Do not let your age stop you from changing the world," Malala said to the 8,000 attendees packed into Sydney's International Convention Centre last Monday night. "Because I started speaking out when I was 11.

"I was not thinking for a second that, just because I'm young, I cannot change the world."

Malala was in Australia for the first time, speaking at An Evening with Malala Yousafzai, presented by The Growth Faculty. The event was moderated by ABC journalist, Annabel Crabb.

Malala grew up in Swat Valley, Pakistan, an area popular with tourists before the Taliban arrived. In December 2008, the Taliban announced that from 15 January 2009, no girl would be allowed to go to school.

When that day came, Malala decided to act.

"When my right to education was taken away - when my future was taken away from me - I knew that I had to do something," Malala said with conviction. "And for me, it was speaking the truth and raising my voice for my right to education. Because remaining silent was just giving up and...losing my future."

Malala spoke up for a girl's right to education, even blogging about her experience living under the Taliban's conditions for the BBC. She later won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts.

With Malala's growing influence, she eventually became a target of the Taliban. The next year, on 12 October, a masked gunman boarded the school bus she was on and shot her in the head. It generated a surge of outrage, and support, worldwide.

Malala was treated for her in injuries in Pakistan before being flown to Birmingham, UK for further surgery.
Miraculously, she survived and has continued to advocate for education with an even stronger conviction ever since.

"The terrorists, in order to silence me, had tried their best...and they still failed," Malala explained. "That, to me, was evidence of how strong my voice, my mission and my activism could be.

"I was received as a threat by these people because my voice could empower girls. Because when I was speaking out for girls' education, that meant empowering those girls, which they were afraid of."

Malala said she was not thinking of courage or bravery when she continued to speak out.

"I was thinking of my rights. And when you speak of your rights, I think that's something that we call courage."

She credits her opportunity to speak up for girls to her father Ziauddin. He ran a school for female students in Pakistan after growing up with five sisters who were not given the same opportunities he had enjoyed.

"None of them finished their school," Malala said. "My dad saw how he was given an education but not his sisters. My dad saw how he was valued more and given more attention and support than his sisters."

As a result, Ziauddin decided that if he had a daughter, he would give her better opportunities. He also decided he would name said daughter after the Pashtun heroine, Malalai of Maiwand, who strengthened the morale of soldiers during the second Anglo-Afghan war.

"She went out when soldiers were giving up and losing the battle, raised her voice and said that if you do not die on this battlefield then you'll live a life of shame forever," Malala explained to the attentive audience.

"Her voice was so powerful that it turned all the soldiers back to the battlefield and then they won that war. And she's now remembered in our history. So it tells about the power of the voice of a woman."

It was as if Ziauddin predestined Malala for greatness. "My story is different because my dad allowed me to speak; he did not stop me," Malala said. "And if he had stopped me, I would not have been here."

Malala wrote a best-selling book about her experience called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.

As a result of her tireless campaigns for girls around the world to receive an education, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2013 by the European Parliament.

She was also the youngest person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, winning the accolade alongside Indian childrens' rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.

Now studying at Oxford University, Malala continues to advocate for the 130 million girls around the world who aren't in school by campaigning for more finance towards education and by investing in local activists.

Furthermore, she established the Malala Fund with her father, to give every girl the right to 12 years of safe, free and quality education.

"Educating girls is crucial," she said. "We are giving them access to opportunities which they otherwise would not have without an education.

"We are making them independent. They can earn, they can help to run and sustain their families, and they can be more aware of how to take care of the environment.

"If you give an education to a girl, that's how you're changing her life and that's how you're also changing the world."

Malala closed the event by saying that anyone can change the world, regardless of their age, culture, religion or background.

"Believe in yourself, believe in your voice, and believe in the power that you have," she stated.
The Growth Faculty has a huge line-up of international guests coming to Australia in 2019, including PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and author Brené Brown. Learn about why respecting human rights is good for business.

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Malala Yousafzai on courage, girls' education and changing the world

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai touched down in Sydney and Melbourne to share her incredible story. Find out what tips she shared about changing the world.

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Malala made all young girls get back their eduaction. She was the one who stood up for all girls education and futures.Malala was known for the young girl who stood up for education. Even thought she got shot in her head she survived and got motivated to keep doing it. It is a subject she never ceased to be passionate about even after she returned home once the militants had been run out of Swat. Malala and her family were the subject of threats and it was on 9 October 2012 that these were borne out.

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Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai wrote an anonymous diary about life under Taliban rule in north-west Pakistan. She was shot in the head by militants for daring to go to school. In 2014 she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Accepting the award in Oslo she said she was "humbled" and proud to be the first Pashtun and the first Pakistani to win the prize. She also joked that she was probably the first winner who still fought with her younger brothers.

Malala Yousafzai first came to public attention through that heartfelt diary, published on BBC Urdu, which chronicled her desire to remain in education and for girls to have the chance to be educated.

When she was shot in the head in October 2012 by a Taliban gunman, she was already well known in Pakistan, but that one shocking act catapulted her to international fame.

She survived the dramatic assault, in which a militant boarded her school bus in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley and opened fire, wounding two of her school friends as well.

The story of her recovery - from delicate surgery at a Pakistani military hospital to further operations and rehabilitation in the UK, and afterwards as she took her campaign global - has been closely tracked by the world's media.

She was discharged from hospital in January 2013 and her life now is unimaginably different to anything she may have envisaged when she was an anonymous voice chronicling the fears of schoolgirls under the shadow of the Taliban.

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The life of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani blogger who survived being shot by the Taliban and became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the right of every child to receive an education, in October 2014.The prize motivation was for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.In her speech Malala called for the equal right to education for girls all over the world, and became a symbol of this cause.

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Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

Prize share: 1/2

For the right of every child to receive an education

Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the right of every child to receive an education. She was born in the Swat Valley in Pakistan. When the Islamic Taliban movement took control of the valley in 2008, girls' schools were burned down. Malala kept a diary of the events, which was published in 2009 by BBC Urdu. In her diary she spoke out against the Taliban's terrorist regime. An American documentary film made Malala internationally famous.

It was not long before the Taliban threatened her life. In 2012, Malala was shot in the head on a school bus by a Taliban gunman. She survived, but had to flee to England and live in exile there because a fatwa was issued against her.

In 2013, TIME magazine named Malala one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World." On her 16th birthday she spoke in the United Nations. In her speech Malala called for the equal right to education for girls all over the world, and became a symbol of this cause.

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

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I choose Malala Yousafzai because I like how she stood up for children education. If she didn´t stand up,no one would´ve done it. she wants girls to get their education. Malala is unique because she won the youngest Nobel prize at the age of 17. She is a very good person that now day shes doing good in life.