Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate (born 1997)
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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen."
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'Stop the marginalisation': Malala Yousafzai tells Indian leaders to step in as state closes schools after hijab ban violenceProtests over girl students wearing hijabs, a scarf which many Muslim women and girls wear over their heads, have taken an ugly turn in southern India.Sky News - Published | |
Malala Yousafzai breaks silence on Karnataka hijab row, says 'refusing girls inside schools in hijab horrifying'Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has issued a statement on the ongoing debate surrounding the hijab row erupting in Karnataka.DNA - Published | |
Malala Yousafzai celebrates graduation from Oxford University nine years after being shot by the TalibanMalala Yousafzai, the education campaigner who was shot by the Taliban, has graduated from Oxford University with a philosophy, politics and economics degree.Sky News - Published | |
'We've got to find a way': Lloyd Webber on supporting refugees with Malala and nearly getting jailedOn first glance, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Malala Yousafzai aren't natural collaborators.Sky News - Published | |
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Afghanistan a crying case for UN peacekeeping force for safety of women, children: Kiran BediFormer Puducherry lieutenant governor (LG) Kiran Bedi has advocated a strong presence of the UN in trouble-torn Afghanistan which has been overrun by the Taliban, posing a grave threat to the safety,..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Malala appears on Vogue's front page and talks university, McDonald's and her headscarfMalala Yousafzai has said that she "finally" found time for herself while at university, as she appeared on the front of British Vogue magazine.Sky News - Published |