born july pakistani activist female education youngest nobel prize known mainly human rights advocacy education women native province northwest pakistan local times banned girls attending school advocacy grown international movement family runs chain schools region early wrote blog pseudonym detailing life occupation attempts control valley views promoting education girls following summer journalist new_york_times documentary life pakistani military intervened region rose prominence giving interviews print television nominated south african activist afternoon october boarded school bus northwest pakistani district asked pointed pistol fired shots bullet hit left forehead travelled skin length face went shoulder days immediately following attack remained unconscious critical condition later condition improved sent birmingham england intensive rehabilitation october group muslim pakistan issued tried kill reiterated intent kill father assassination attempt sparked national international support wrote january famous teenager world united nations special envoy global education launched petition demanding children worldwide school end helped lead ratification pakistan right education bill issues time magazine featured influential people world winner pakistan recipient prize july year spoke headquarters united_nations worldwide access education october announced intention parliament citizenship february nominated sweden fighting women rights children rights describe feminist asked forbes summit told decided feminist hearing watson speech launching campaign granted honorary doctorate nova scotia later announced recipient nobel peace prize struggle suppression children young people right children education aged time youngest nobel prize subject oscar documentary named march pupil girls birmingham august achieved string exams early life childhood born july pakistan northwestern province muslim family ethnicity given meaning grief stricken famous warrior woman southern afghanistan large tribal confederation predominant pakistan grew house lived younger brothers parents pet chickens fluent english educated large father poet school owner educational activist running chain private schools known stated interviewer like doctor later father encouraged politician instead referred daughter entirely special permitting stay night talk politics brothers sent bed started speaking education rights early september father took speak local press club dare away basic right education asked audience speech covered newspapers television channels region began peer educator peace reporting open minds pakistan youth programme worked schools region help young people engage discussion social issues tools journalism public debate dialogue bbc blogger late website colleagues came novel way covering growing influence decided ask blog anonymously life correspondent touch local school teacher couldn find students willing considered dangerous families finally suggested daughter year old time led taking banning television music girls education women going shopping bodies beheaded policemen hung town squares girl named father school agreed write diary girl parents stopped feared alternative years younger original volunteer seventh grade time editors bbc unanimously agreed covering violence politics detail didn know ordinary people lived editor said concerned safety bbc editors insisted use pseudonym blog published taken character january entry posted bbc blog hand write notes pass reporter scan mail blog records thoughts battle military operations place fewer girls school finally school set girls attend school january group blown girls schools night ban took effect filled noise artillery fire waking times following day read time excerpts blog published local newspaper banned school ban continued destroy schools area days later blog wrote studying exams annual exams possible allow girls school told prepare certain chapters exam feel like studying february girls schools closed solidarity private schools boys decided open february notices appeared saying february brother returned hometown streets deserted eerie silence went supermarket buy gift mother closed earlier remain open till late shops closed wrote blog home robbed television stolen boys schools reopened lifted restrictions girls primary education education girls schools closed wrote pupils attended pupils enrolled february heard streets father saying don scared firing peace father read newspaper government going sign peace deal day later night announced peace deal studio round stronger firing started outside spoke national current affairs capital talk february days later local leader announced radio station lifting ban women education girls allowed attend school exams held march wear girls schools reopen february wrote blog classmates played lot class enjoyed like attendance class pupils march active area continued relief goods meant displaced people looted days later wrote skirmish military sounds mortar shells heard people scared peace long people saying peace agreement permanent break fighting march wrote science paper performed added longer searching vehicles blog ended march displaced person bbc diary ended father approached new_york_times reporter filming documentary moved region regain control second battle evacuated family displaced separated father went protest lobby support sent countryside live relatives bored books read filmed saying documentary month criticising press conference father received death threat radio commander deeply inspired activism father summer time committed politician doctor early july refugee camps filled capacity prime minister long awaited announcement saying safe return pakistani military pushed cities countryside family reunited july headed home stop meet group activists invited united_states president barack_obama special representative afghanistan pakistan pleaded intervene situation saying respected ambassador help education help family finally return home found damaged school sustained light damage early activism following documentary interviewed national language station language canada second appearance august bbc identity revealed articles december began appearing television publicly advocate female education october south african activist nominated dutch international children advocacy group pakistani girl nominated award announcement said stand girls national international media let world know girls right school award won south_africa public profile rose awarded pakistan months later december december prime minister awarded national peace award youth proceedings honour stated member political party hoped found national party promote education prime minister directed authorities set campus request secondary school renamed honour planning organise help poor girls school assassination attempt recognised dangers facing increased death threats published newspapers slipped door facebook active user began receive threats fake profiles created worked spokesman says forced act meeting held summer leaders unanimously agreed kill october shot rode home bus taking exam pakistan masked shouted speak shoot identified shot hit bullet went head neck ended shoulder girls wounded shooting stable speak reporters provide details attack medical treatment shooting military hospital doctors forced begin operating swelling developed left portion brain damaged bullet passed head hour operation doctors successfully removed bullet lodged shoulder near spinal cord day following attack doctors performed skull removed allow room brain swell october panel pakistani british doctors decided doctor said chance survival interior minister said moved germany receive best medical treatment soon stable travel team doctors travel government bear expenditures treatment doctors reduced october moved limbs offers treat came world october travelled united_kingdom treatment approved doctors family plane landed continued birmingham england treated hospital treatment military personnel injured conflict according government pakistani government paying transport migration medical accommodation costs party come coma october responding treatment said good chance fully recovering brain damage later updates october stated stable battling infection november photographed sitting bed january discharged hospital continue rehabilitation family temporary home hour operation february reconstruct skull receive restore hearing reported stable condition reaction assassination attempt received worldwide media coverage produced sympathy anger protests shooting held pakistani cities day attack million people signed right education campaign petition led ratification right education bill pakistan pakistani officials offered million reward information leading arrest attackers responding concerns safety father said wouldn leave country daughter survives ideology advocates peace stop independent voices force bullets pakistan president described shooting attack people secretary general called act united_states president barack_obama found attack tragic secretary state hillary_clinton said brave standing rights girls attackers threatened kind empowerment british foreign secretary called shooting shocked pakistan world american singer madonna dedicated song human nature concert los_angeles day attack temporary tattoo american actress wrote article explaining event children answering questions like men think needed kill later donated girls education lady united states wrote piece washington_post compared holocaust indian director announced making biographical film based chief spokesman claimed responsibility attack saying symbol adding survived group target days following attack reiterated justification saying father warned times stop daughter dirty language didn listen forced extreme step justified attack religious scripture stating says people islam islamic forces killed going says child killed islam october group islamic pakistan issued ruling islamic law gunmen tried kill islamic scholars publicly denounced attempts mount religious shooting classmates attack condemned pakistan fringe pakistani political parties outfits aired conspiracy theories shooting staged provide excuse continuing attacks pakistan pro elements branded american spy united_nations petition october special envoy global education british prime minister visited hospital launched petition support fought slogan petition main demand child left school hope girls like soon going school brown said hand petition president november petition contains demands pakistan agree plan deliver education child countries outlaw discrimination girls international organisations ensure world million school children education end criminal investigation arrests day shooting pakistan interior minister stated shot identified police named year old graduate student chemistry attack remained large possibly afghanistan police arrested men involvement attack later released lack evidence november ordered attack confirmed hiding sources september major general told media briefing attackers belong militant group called general said militant group member identified troops acting information received interrogation members militant group arrested intelligence based joint operation conducted police military april arrested sentenced life prison judge judge chance eligibility parole possible release years known actual assassins sentenced june revealed men tried camera attack fact secretly acquitted revealed men acquitted freed murder bid believed men shot fled afghanistan captured information release suspects came light attempted locate men prison senior police official stated men released evidence connect attack continuing activism spoke united_nations july met buckingham palace september spoke harvard_university october met president barack_obama family meeting confronted use strikes pakistan december addressed july spoke girl summit london advocating rights girls october receiving rights child sweden announced help rebuild schools representation british prime minister arranged appearance united_nations july brown requested consultant friend family chair charity fund gained support google vice president sits fund board november consulting firm began work pro basis according firm involves providing press office function office employs people headed continues provide assistance day july 16th birthday spoke worldwide access education dubbed event day public speech attack leading youth takeover audience young education advocates world terrorists thought change aims stop ambitions changed life weakness fear died strength power courage born speak terms personal revenge terrorist group speak right education child want education sons daughters terrorists received standing spoke session described hero presented chamber education want youth resolution education demands written process telling audience day day today day woman boy girl raised voice rights pakistani government comment appearance amid backlash pakistan press social media nobel peace prize october announced recipient nobel peace prize struggle suppression children young people right children education having received prize age youngest nobel shared prize children rights activist india second pakistani receive nobel prize physics pakistani winner nobel peace prize won nobel peace prize praise disapproval decision award norwegian commented winning nobel prize fine people nice things glad receive irrelevant nobel wanted prize promoted global young mexican man interrupted nobel peace prize award ceremony protest mass kidnapping mexico quickly taken away security personnel later acknowledged problems faced young people world saying problems mexico problems america norway important children raise voices school syrian refugee girls july 18th birthday opened school lebanon near syrian border syrian refugees school funded profit offers education training girls aged years called world leaders invest books bullets works memoir story girl stood education shot written british journalist published october reviewer guardian called book fearless stated conspiracy read book criticised stiff know voice foreign correspondent interwoven reviewer washington_post called book wrote difficult imagine chronicle war moving apart diary entertainment_weekly gave book writing eager voice little thin likely thanks writer powerful message remains pakistan private school federation announced book banned member institutions stating islam negative influence pakistani investigative editor described work providing critics concrete prove agent west islam pakistan children edition memoir published title girl stood education changed world audio book edition narrated won grammy award best children album reception pakistan reception pakistan mixed dawn columnist summarized main complaints critics fame highlights pakistan negative aspect rampant education campaign echoes western west admiration plight innocent victims like casualties strikes dawn journalist addressed public lack rage pakistan blaming failing state government journalist described justify western perfect candidate white man relieve burden save native accused social media cia spy support pakistani media editor pakistan argues gained fame pakistan belonged province opinion given importance mainstream media pakistan views regard published afghanistan awards honours awarded following national international honours nominee moral courage january pakistan highest civilian bravery award october magazine global november time magazine person year awards november rome prize peace december annual survey global english january prize january march conferred december oxford street advocacy award index censorship march fred march vital voices global leadership awards april time influential people world april award annual award development june international year june international peace award august portrait displayed london ambassador clinton global citizen awards harvard_university war reflections hope award prize freedom thought awarded honorary master arts degree awarded pride britain october glamour magazine woman year hammer award leadership awards november international prize equality non discrimination known awarded honorary life membership ireland global treasure award honorary doctor civil law halifax nova_scotia canada nobel peace prize shared influential teens citizenship grammy award best children album named honour honorary president students union popular culture documentary entitled named american filmmaker released october broadcast film february version appears funeral broken episode series referred pakistani girl keeps winning nobel prizes
Malala Yousafzai