00:00Women who change the world.
00:30One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
00:37Malala Yousafzai.
00:39Malala was born on the 12th of July, 1997 in Mingora, the SWAT district of northwest Pakistan, to a Sunni Muslim family.
00:49In 2009, Malala began writing an anonymous blog for the BBC, expressing her views on education and life under the threat of the Taliban taking over her valley.
01:02It was her father who suggested his own daughter to the BBC.
01:06At times, Malala reported hearing artillery from the advancing Taliban forces.
01:12As the Taliban took control of the area, they issued edicts banning television, banning music, and banning women from going shopping and limiting women's education.
01:23A climate of fear prevailed, and Malala and her father began to receive death threats for their outspoken views.
01:29Her father once considered moving Malala outside of SWAT to a boarding school, but Malala didn't want to leave.
01:37After the BBC blog had ended, Malala featured in a documentary made by New York Times reporter Adam B. Ellick.
01:45She also received greater international coverage, and her identity about writing the BBC blog was revealed.
01:53In 2011, she received Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize, and she was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children's Peace Prize.
02:05Her increased profile and strident criticism of the Taliban caused Taliban leaders to meet, and in 2012, they voted to kill her.
02:14On the 9th of October, 2012, a masked gunman entered her school bus and asked,
02:21Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot at you all.
02:27Malala was identified, and she was shot with a single bullet, which went through her head, neck, and shoulder.
02:33Two other girls were also injured, though not as badly as Malala.
02:38Malala survived the initial shooting, but was in critical condition.
02:42Her critical organs were failing, and she developed an infection.
02:46In a coma, she was moved to a hospital in Rawalpindi.
02:50Later, on the 15th of October, she was transferred to Birmingham in the United Kingdom for further treatment
02:57at a specialist hospital for treating military injuries.
03:01A couple of days later, she came out of a coma and responded well to treatment.
03:06She was discharged on January 3rd, 2013, and moved with her family to a temporary home in the West Midlands.
03:15Her assassination received worldwide condemnation and protests across Pakistan.
03:21Over 2 million people signed the Right to Education campaign.
03:24The petition helped the ratification of Pakistan's first right to education bill in Pakistan.
03:31In Sinola Ihsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack,
03:38saying that Yusuf Zai was a symbol of the infidels and obscenity.
03:42However, other Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against the Taliban leaders
03:48and said there was no religious justification for shooting a schoolgirl.
03:53On the 15th of October, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown,
04:00visited Malala while she was in hospital and launched a petition in her name
04:05in support for what Malala fought for.
04:08On the 12th of July, 2013, she spoke at the United Nations to a group of 500 youths,
04:15calling for worldwide access to education.
04:18Since 2013, she has studied in Edgbaston High School in Birmingham.
04:23She has continued to be a prominent activist based with her family living in Birmingham.
04:28In 2015, a documentary about Yusuf Zai was shortlisted for the Oscars,
04:34He Named Me Malala.
04:36In 2017, she began studying PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
04:42In October 2014, the Nobel Committee awarded Malala the Nobel Peace Prize.
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