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biography
Malala was born on the 12th of july in Pakistan. She is known for human rights advocacy, escepcially the education of women and children in her native country. Her family runned a chain of schools in the region -
Inspiration
She was inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work -
her beggining as an activist
She wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. Then the New York Times made a documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in te region. She started to get recognition by giving interviews in print and television -
the attack
While she was on a bus, after taking an exam, Malala and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt because of her activism.
She was hit in the head with a bullet and remained unconscious and in a critical condition for months. Her contidion later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK -
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achievements
-In 2013 she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation that fights for women right to education
-She co-authored the book I Am Malala, and was an intenational best-seller
-in 2014 she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize leaureate
-The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally