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life story of Malala Yousafzai, and his struggle for the rights of women and children.
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Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in the Swat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan, a Muslim family sunitade Pashtuns. Was given the name of Malala means afflicted, is the daughter of Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toorpekai, and has two brothers.
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Malala speaks Pashto, Urdu and English, his father who raised her greatly, he is a poet and owner of a network of schools, the Khushal Public School, Malala once told an interviewer he would like to become a doctor, but later her father encouraged her to become a political activist.
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Malala became interested at a young age by differences they had in their country, where the Taliban culture the place of women is reduced to live almost hidden inside houses, not to go out alone the street, to walk all his life with outfits that almost completely clogged and from age 18, among other things, to procreate.
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Yousafzai began speaking about education rights, in September 2008, when her father took her to Peshawar to speak at a local press club. "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Yousafzai told the audience in a speech that would cover newspapers and television stations throughout the region.
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In late 2008, Aamer Ahmed Khan on the website of the BBC in Urdu and colleagues proposed a new way to meet the growing influence of the Taliban in the Swat area. They had the idea of creating a blog anonymously and that a student wrote, should tell about his life there, but could not find any student willing to do so.
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Taliban militants led by Maulana Fazlullah were taking the Swat Valley, Bodies of beheaded policemen were being hung in the streets. At first, a girl named Aisha school his father agreed to write a diary, but then the parents of the girl prevented him from doing so for fear of reprisals from the Taliban. The only alternative was Yousafzai, four years younger than the original volunteer years and in the seventh grade at the time.
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We've been covering violence and politics in Swat in detail, but we do not know much about how ordinary people lived under the Taliban regime, Mirza Waheed, the former editor of the BBC Urdu said they were concerned about the safety of Yousafzai, BBC editors insisted that he use a pseudonym in the blog.
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On January 3, 2009, it was the first entry in the blog Yousafzai BBC Urdu. She hand wrote notes and then passed to a reporter that scanned and sent by email. In her notes she explained her life under the regime of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and its attempts to regain control of the valley, the Taliban forced the closure of private schools and the education of girls was banned.
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In 2009, Yousafzai began as an apprentice and then as an educator in the youth program at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Open Minds Pakistan, worked in schools in the region to help young people to engage in constructive discussions on social issues through tools such as journalism, public debate and dialogue.
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In May 2010 riots was rumored to oust the Taliban regime and threatening more than ever patrolled in the streets. Malala was already known to defend in international forums via the Internet, and especially in the media, his pro right to study women, and began receiving death threats. When they became unbearable, her father decided that she had to take time to guard and keep quiet.
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On the afternoon of October 9, 2012, Yousafzai boarded his school bus in the Pakistani district, a gunman approached and asked about her calling her name, and then pointed a gun and shot him three times. One of the bullets hit the left side of the front Yousafzai, the bullet pierced the skin through the length of the face, and then entered the shoulder.
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On October 12, a group of 50 Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill Malala, but the Taliban reiterated their intention to kill.
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Five days after the attack, Malala remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later, her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, for intensive rehabilitation.
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The assassination attempt provoked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle, a major television station wrote in January 2013 that Yousafzai could have become the most famous teenager in the world.
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He was also recipient of the 2013 Sakharov Prize.
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In July 2013, Malala addressed the plenary of the UN Assembly to request access to education worldwide.
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At age 16, in addition to lecturing at major international forums in the world, he wrote with his father, his great mentor, Ziauddin Yousafzai, his biography I am Malala. The book published by a British publisher points to the 61 million children who can not study in the world.
The book abounds in Malala's life and how he came to become one of the most influential in this century despite his youth and his own tragedy women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvs1vwiD0M -
Malala confesses that although she has fought and fights for the rights of women and the rights of the child, not described herself as a feminist. In 2015, Yousafzai said he had decided to identify themselves as feminist after hearing the speech of Emma Watson at the UN in launching the campaign HeForShe
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In May 2014, a Yousafzai was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014; for his fight against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education, with 17 years, he became the youngest player to access the award in any category that is given person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqIotJrFVM
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In October 2014 the Government of Canada, through its Parliament conferred the honorary Canadian citizenship to Yousafzai, also was awarded the Prize of the World's Children in Sweden.
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In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Time magazine included Yousafzai as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, She was the first winner of the National Youth Peace Prize award that now bears his name.
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The Special Envoy of the United Nations Global Education, Gordon Brown, launched a petition UN on behalf of Yousafzai, requiring all children around the world were at school at the end of 2015; which he helped lead to the ratification of the right to education in Pakistan.
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Currently the Yousafzai family lives in the city of Birmingham, England, where Malala attends school and is still fighting for their cause.
