Malala Yousafzai Research Papers

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The Taliban was a group destined to do wrong and was against equal rights for women. Malala Yousafzai was a girl determined for women to have the same rights as men and she got “punished” by the taliban with a gunshot through the head. Malala recovered fine and went on to become a women's right activist. She also was awarded many prizes for her great courage. Malala Yousafzai was a strong women strengthened by the obstacles she faced that have gotten her where she is.
Malala was born July 12th, 1997 in one of the most women discriminated places, Mingora, Pakistan. “She was named Malala, which means ‘grief stricken’ after a famous female Pashtun poet and warrior from Afghanistan,”(“biography”, 3). When Malala was 10, the Taliban rapidly changed …show more content…

The man who raised her for 19 years name was Ziauddin Yousafzai who was a diplomat which is an official who represents a country abroad. “Malala shared her fathers passion for learning and loved going to school,”(Malala.2). Her dad also raised her and her two brothers. Malala was an advocate for girls education since the taliban refused to allow her to go to school she fought for her rights and others. “In early 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai,”(“Nobelprize” 5). Malala’s identity was eventually figured out and she …show more content…

One of them happened to be that she was a children's and women's right activist. She’s always have speeches held for women and children in which she’d take about how women and children are being mistreated all around Pakistan. She also has a fund called the Malala Foundation. The fund is made so we can try to make the 130 million girls out of school down to 0 girls. There goal is to see every girl with a complete 12 years of education. Also, Malala right now is on a girl power to trip where she travels around the world trying to fight for girls futures. She spends time meeting students from all around. She also meets local leaders as well as students. Malala was a very active person as she never gave up in her fight but with her great efforts came great

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