Malala Yousafzai became a target of the Taliban in Pakistan because 1) she was a girl who attended school, 2) she spoke out about women’s rights to education and 3) she was 14 years old she was awarded the Pakistan’s Youth Peace Prize. The Taliban shot her in the head when she was riding the bus home from school, however, she survived and continued to speak out.
Malala has become an important voice for speaking out for equality and education for women. She is still only 19 and her achievements include: 1) winning the Pakistan’s Youth Peace Prize when she was 14. 2) surviving an assassination attempt, 3) being the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize and 4) opening a school for Syrian refugees.
If I were in the same situation
Growing up in Taliban controlled Pakistan, Malala and her family were concerned with women’s education in their home. She became a BBC blogger, writing about what it was like living under the Islamic extremists. She was a strong advocate for education, publicly speaking about the issue and winning several awards. In 2012, the Taliban considered her a threat, and boarded her school bus, shooting her in the head. Malala was 14 years old. She survived the attack, receiving treatment in England. From these traumatic events, she rose to become a global figure and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate of all time. Her book, I am Malala, the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, is a memoir of her experiences that is read throughout the world. Malala’s misfortune played a huge role in bringing to center stage, and in making her the influential women she is today. If she had never been attacked, she would not have made the global impact she
Malala Yousafzai is a women and children activist born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12th 1997. While growing up, she began advocating for the right to education among girls . Due to her persistence and determination in her activism, on October 9th 2012 Malala was shot on her way home from school by a gunman. She survived the incident and became more passionate towards her fight for education for young females. This incident gave her popularity and in 2013 Malala became nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 2014. Malala became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Yousafzai 481). Due to the problems that young females had been facing in Pakistan and worldwide, it was essential to understand her education, the oppression by the Taliban, the devotion towards her religion named Islam and activism on the basis of the novel ‘I Am Malala’.
Yousafzai is still a devoted advocate for education. In 2013, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t win. The next year, she was named a nominee again, and won. At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The young activist continued to take action on global education by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon. Malala Yousafzi is truly inspirational, and doesn’t take no for an answer. That is why
October ninth, two-thousand twelve, fifteen year old Malala Yousafzai boarded a school bus which would take her and other students home from school. The school bus was stopped by two members of the Pakistani Taliban. One went to the front of the bus to interrogate the bus driver. The second man entered the passenger part of the bus, called for Malala by name and fired three times. One of the bullets hit Malala at point blank near her left eye, traveled down into her shoulder and became lodged.
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school, and on July 12, 2013, at the age of 16, she delivered a speech promoting education for girls. She has become a champion for
Malala Yousafzai’s home town in the Swat Valley of Pakistan is where her journey first takes place where oppression against womens education is enforced by Taliban rule. The Taliban staunchly opposed Malala’s fierce beliefs in the right for women to have an education and they did their best to silence her voice. Malala and the other women in the Swat Valley were forced to obey their oppressive regime and not gain an education. Despite the harsh climate against her Malala spoke up against this tyranny with the faith that she could cause a change for the better. Unfortunately due to this she was singled out and faced severe retaliation. A Taliban gunman stopped her school bus and proclaimed that she must be punished for insulting the
The story goes like this; on October 9,, 2012 a shocking incident happened in Afghanistan. A 14 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head because she stood up for her beliefs; the right to education for girls.
She wrote her own book called I am Malala. In her book she talked about how the Taliban tried to break her spirit and how she kept fighting to become who she is today. Malala is also the youngest Nobel Prize winner at the age of 17! She also had the honor of giving a speech in front of the United
Malala Yousafzai stands up to the Taliban by using her voice and by being brave. Despite
“Last year, the Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai in the head for daring to speak about the need for girls’ education in Pakistan. She survived- and she’s still talking.” Malala believes that girls need a good education and she was determined to help make a change in the society she lives in, to enable girls to attend school. Since Malala stood up for what she believed in, she was shot in the head.
Malala Yousafzai is well known for her acts towards Women’s Rights due to the factors caused by the Taliban people. Malala (Biographyonline, Malala) was a regular Pakistan school girl when the Taliban started enforcing rules and restrictions against women. Women were no longer allowed to listen to music, receive education, or go shopping. If they did, they’d be punished by the Taliban. Malala loved school and refused to cower in fear like the rest of her classmates and community. Malala formed a secret blog with BBC expressing her feelings about how unfair women were being treated. Malala was then targeted by the Taliban and shot in the head. Malala suffered a coma, but
Back in October of 2012, a young woman was shot in the head multiple times by Taliban Gunmen. After weeks of treatment in intensive care, the world remained in shock, and happy to learn the young girl, Malala, survived. The Taliban shot her because she was protesting for women’s education and the Taliban is against women’s rights. After Malala fully recovered, her story was released to the public. It started off at school with all of her classmates talking about what they wanted to become after school.
One year ago schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen - her "crime", to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated. The world reacted in horror, but after weeks in intensive care Malala survived. Her full story can now be told.
She has shown people there is no age limited for standing up to inequality. Malala had been sharing diaries with the BBC since she was 11 years old. On her 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN about education she believes every child should have access to. Because of all her incredible accomplishments, she was the youngest individual ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the United Nations in 2013, she outlines to the members of the United Nation her struggle to bring equal education opportunities to every child in the world. Long before her speech, Yousafzai was rallying for women to receive equal education in her native country of Pakistan, but her modern age view did not to sit well with the ruling terrorist faction in her country the Taliban. In an attempt to silence her, the Taliban made an attempt on Yousafzai’s life while she was a school bus filled with here fellow classmates. Thankfully Yousafzai survived the attempt on her life, and rather than cowering in fear Yousafzai’s held on to her beliefs and kept rallying for the cause she believes in. After campaigning for