In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a women's rights and education campaigner was shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she attempted to board her school bus in the Swat area of northwest Pakistan.
A shooter shot Yousafzai as she was walking home from school on October 9, 2012. She survived and has continued to advocate for the value of education. She delivered a speech to the United Nations in 2013 and released her debut book, I Am Malala. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 after surviving a Taliban murder attempt. When Yousafzai was still a kid, she became an advocate for girls' education, prompting the Taliban to issue a murder threat against her.
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