Who is Malala Yousafzai ?
She is the yougest-ever Nobel Prize Laureate!
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women.
Malala Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
In early 2009, when she was 11-12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation.
Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu.
United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown launched a UN petition in Yousafzai's name, demanding that all children worldwide be in school by the end of 2015 ; it helped lead to the ratification of Pakistan's first Right to Education Bill.
A 2013 issue of Time magazine featured Yousafzai as one of " The 100 Most Influential People in the World ". She was the winner of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize, and the recipient of the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In July that year, she spoke at the headquarters of the United Nations to call for worldwide access to education.
Yousafzai was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize 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, Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize Laureate.
