#malala_yousafzai

I want to talk about a person that is hero and I chose her for my famous persons list. She was born 12 July 1997. She is a Pakistani activist for female education. On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, she and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism. She was hit in the head with a bullet. Following her recovery, she became a prominent activist for the right to education. She founded the Malala Fund. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. In November 2013, she receiving the Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, this made her the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, she was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally. In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada. She is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, Lady Margaret Hall.

NASA Names Asteroid After Malala Yousafzai

NASA astronomer has named an asteroid after the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.

Asteroid ‘316201 Malala’ is named by Amy Mainzer—an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, reportedly.

The asteroid is located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was discovered by Amy Mainzer in 2010. About 4 kilometers in diameter,…

Nobel Peace prize for India’s Kailash Satyarthi & Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai…

Renowned child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai were on Friday declared the joint winners of the Nobel Peace prize for 2014.

Satyarthi, 60, runs Bachpan Bachao Andolan, an organization dedicated to child rights which has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in their reintegration, rehabilitation and education.

“Extremely…