Malala Yousafzai was born July 12, 1997 in Pakistan's
Swat Valley. Since her childhood, she is an activist. Her father is
himself a defender of the right to education. He founded a school,
which was renamed with the name of the girl. But the Taliban
arrived in the village and imposed Sharia. Music, movies, and all
symbols of freedom and emancipation for women are prohibited.
Malala's family tried to resist...
It
was at the age of 11 that Malala became very famous. When she went
with her father to a press conference, she denounced the violence of
the Taliban who, after taking control of the Swat Valley in 2007,
burnt schools for girls and murded their opponents.
When
the Taliban arrived in Swat, her family left the region and the
members of the family separated. They united again in July 2009,
after the Second Battle of Swat.
In october 9,
2012, Malala was targeted by an attack. She writes in her biography:
« The day where everything changed was Tuesday, October 9 »
This day, Malala, who was
15 years old, is a victim of an attack by the Taliban: While she was
going to school, the school bus stopped abruptly. Masked men got on
the bus and they asked : « Who is Malala ? "and they
shot her in the head.
With the
mediatization of her story, the teenager became a heroine and a
fighting icon for the right to education.
Since 2011, she received numerous
awards for her commitment: the international price of children for
peace, Simone de Beauvoir prize for women's freedom, Anna
Politkovskaïa price and the Sakharov Price of the European
Parliament.
On December 10, 2012, UNESCO and
Pakistan created the Malala Fund which aims to register in school all
children of the world by 2015.
In April 2012, the American
weekly Time revealed Malala in its list of the hundred most
influential personalities in the world.
On July 12, 2013, the day
of her 16th birthday, at the United Nations she launched, a strong
appeal for "education for all children". «Our books and
pens are our most powerful weapons. A teacher, a book, a pen can
change the world ». She was warmly applauded by the assembly.
In October 10, 2014, the Nobel Peace
Prize was awarded to Malala and Kailash Satyarthi for their fight
against the oppression of children and young people and for the right
of all children to education. Malala is now beginning a political
career to "change the future" of Pakistan. «I’ll be a
politician later. I want to change the future of my country and make
education compulsory ".
DARRIGUES, Maeva 1SB
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