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    Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for education rights who was shot by the Taliban at age 15 for promoting girls' education in Pakistan. She survived the assassination attempt and has since become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. Malala advocates for educating women worldwide through her nonprofit Malala Fund and uses her platform to spotlight barriers to education.

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    Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for education rights who was shot by the Taliban at age 15 for promoting girls' education in Pakistan. She survived the assassination attempt and has since become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. Malala advocates for educating women worldwide through her nonprofit Malala Fund and uses her platform to spotlight barriers to education.

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    Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for education rights who was shot by the Taliban at age 15 for promoting girls' education in Pakistan. She survived the assassination attempt and has since become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. Malala advocates for educating women worldwide through her nonprofit Malala Fund and uses her platform to spotlight barriers to education.

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    Malala Yousafzai

    Human Rights/Education rights


    "I am Malala, The girl who stood"
    Early life Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12
    1997. She loved school but everything changed
    Malala is a great figure when the Taliban (a group of bad people) took
    control over her town in Swat valley. The group
    who stands for the prohibited many things like television, music, and
    education of girls in education for the girls.
    In January 2008 at the age of 11, she said her
    Pakistan farewells to her school mates not knowing if she
    would ever see them again.

    In 2012, Malala spoke to the public saying how girls like her have the
    right to education but this heroic act had a consequence, it made her a
    target. One day on her way home from school, a masked man boarded
    her school bus and asked "Who is Malala" soon after that, she was shot
    three times but she survived.
    The youngest
    Nobel Peace Prize
    winner
    October 2014, Malala was named a
    Nobel peace prize winner making her the
    Youngest winner at the age of 17.
    She stated "This award is not just for
    me, It is for those forgotten children
    who want education, it is for the
    children who want peace, it is for
    voiceless children who want change".

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    It did not come easy...
    Malala is a hero but a hero often go through
    struggles and encounter many road blocks on the
    way up. Malala faced criticism, challenges,
    obstacles throughout her journey. A person once
    said that her encounter with the gun man was fake
    and her being shot was just a made up story when
    there is acceptable proof that those events did in
    fact happen. Despite all of the things that are
    thrown at her, she remains strong in the mind and
    the body knowing what she is doing is right.
    "They only shot a body
    But they cannot shoot my
    Dreams"
    :Malala
    Her legacy...
    Since Malala was Targeted for fighting for girls education, the world
    knows her for promoting girls schooling around the globe.
    -Malala has used her Nobel Peace Prize money to help
    Build schools in her home town in the Swat Valley
    -Created the Malala Fund
    -Released her autobiography called "I am Malala".
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