- Born 12 July 1997, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation in 2009 when she was still 11–12.
- Yousafzai was deeply inspired in her activism by her father and committed to becoming a politician.
- From 2009 to 2010 she was the chair of the District Child Assembly of the Khpal Kor Foundation.
- On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. She was hit with one bullet, which went through her head, neck, and ended in her shoulder.
- In October 2014, after receiving the World Children's Prize for the rights of the child in Mariefred, Sweden, she announced donating $50,000 through the UNRWA, to help rebuild 65 schools in Gaza.
- In 2014, she was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi, for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Aged 17 at the time, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
Malala Yousafzai
The Youngest Real Live Wonder Woman
Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate
Traditions are not sent from heaven, they are not sent from God. It is we who make cultures and we have the right to change it and we should change it.
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