Can i answer? thx! so here is the answer: as a young girl, malala yousafzai defied the taliban in pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. she was shot in the head by a taliban gunman in 2012, but survived and went on to receive the nobel peace prize.who is malala yousafzai? malala yousafzai is a pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the nobel peace prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the taliban. born on july 12, 1997, yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the taliban issuing a death threat against her. on october 9, 2012, a gunman shot malala when she was traveling home from school. she survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. in 2013, she gave a speech to the united nations and published her first book, i am malala. in 2014, she won the nobel peace prize.
in october 2014, at age 17 malala yousafzai became the youngest person to receive the nobel peace prize. she was awarded the nobel along with indian children's rights activist kailash satyarthi. malala was first nominated for the prize in 2013 but did not win; she was renominated in march 2014.
in congratulating yousafzai, pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif said: “she is (the) pride of pakistan, she has made her countrymen proud. her achievement is unparalleled and unequaled. girls and boys of the world should take lead from her struggle and commitment." former u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon described malala as "a brave and gentle advocate of peace who, through the simple act of going to school, became a global teacher.”
~tomas
