essay on Malala Yousafzai
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Malala’s impassioned stance on education and women’s rights can be traced to her roots, since her father is an education activist himself. Malala was born on 12th July, 1997 into a Sunni Muslim family in Mingora, Swat district in North-West Pakistan. She has two younger brothers. Her father encouraged her to pursue politics and would discuss social issues with her till late at night.
When she was only 11 years old, she gave her first speech at Peshawar, where she asked “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” Thereafter, she started writing a blog anonymously under the pseudonym of ‘Gul Makai’. A documentary was also filmed on her life. She grew popular and openly gave her views on television and newspapers. She was nominated for International Children’s Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu. Seeing her worldwide growing support, Taliban felt threatened. A gunman shot at her on 9 October, 2012. She was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in England, where she recuperated. On 12th October, a ‘Fatwa’ was issued against Taliban for attempting to kill her.
Her assassination bid only strengthened her cause. A UN petition ‘I am Malala’ was launched with the aim to put all the children in school by the end of 2015. This helped in the ratification of Pakistan’s first Right to Education Bill. She also won her country’s first Youth Peace Prize and contended alongside Nelson Mandela for the Nobel Peace Prize (2013).
She was again nominated in 2014 and this time she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest person ever to win the nobel prize. She was given the honour to open the world’s largest library the Library of Birmingham.
She met Queen Elizabeth and Barack Obama and his family. She was conferred Europe’s most prestigious human rights award – the Sakharov Prize. She also received a honorary degree from University of King’s College, Canada in 2014.
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Tabloid – a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page
Crusade – any war carried on under papal sanction
Anonymous – without any name acknowledged
Pseudonym – a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity, pen name
Oppression – to exercise power in a cruel or unjust mannner
Ratification – the act of ratifying, confirmation, sanction
Mobilising – to bring together, prepare for action, especially of a vigorous nature
Incarnation – an incarnate being or form, a living being embodying a deity or spirit
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