Write a short note on Malala and her achievements.
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Malala Yousafzai also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani Pashtun activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.
Achievements :-- Malala Yousafzai has been a household name for her human rights activism for almost a decade now.
--2011: At the age of 14, she is awarded Pakistan’s first Youth National Peace Prize for her activism.
-- 2013: Malala receives the United Nations Human Rights Prize, an award that is only given every five years.
-- 2013: Malala continues garnering honors for her activism, receiving the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, joining other Sakharov recipients like Nelson Mandela and the United Nations as a whole.
-- 2014: Malala becomes the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever.
-- 2014: Time magazine names Malala one of the Most Influential Teens of 2014 and 100 Most Influential People.
-- 2015: Malala becomes the subject of a second documentary about her life, He Named Me Malala.
-- 2015: Malala receives a Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World.
-- 2017: Malala receives the UN Messenger of Peace designation.
-- 2017: She begins classes as a freshman at Oxford University.
-- 2017: Malala releases her first children’s book, Malala’s Magic Pencil.
-- 2017: Malala is awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and becomes the youngest person to address the Canadian House of Commons.
-- 2018: Malala announces she will release her second book in September. Called We Are Displaced, it will chronicle her own experiences as a refugee and those of other female refugees she’s met.
-- 2018: Malala makes her first visit to South America to promote girls’ education, and speaks out against the Trump administration policy of separating families at the border.
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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. In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.