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Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, waves after speaking at Birmingham library in Birmingham, central England October 10, 2014.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2014 “One,child,oneteacher,one pen and one book can change the world.” -MalalaYousafzai
Born: July 12, 1997 (age 17), Mingora, Pakistan Education: Edgbaston High School Books: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Parents: Tor PekaiYousafzai, ZiauddinYousafzai Awards: Sakharov Prize, National Malala Peace Prize, more Nominations: Nobel Peace Prize, International Children's Peace Prize
My goal is not to get Nobel Peace Prize……….. My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.
Malala is right about women’s education. This little girl eloquently says what we all should agree on- that girls need to be educated. She’s even been attacked for saying something that has such strong roots within Islam.
MalalaYousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, who became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
Pakistani schoolgirl MalalaYousafzai, the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, waves after speaking at Birmingham library in Birmingham, central England October 10, 2014. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labour KailashSatyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Speaking to the BBC's Panorama programme, she said: "I want to tell the students of UK to think that it is very precious, it's very prestigious, go to school.