The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban

In high school I learned about Malala Yousafzai and over the years I never allowed myself to forget about her significance and profound leadership abilities. She is a Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out publicly against the Taliban’s prohibition on the education of girls. She gained global media attention due to surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban when she was 15 years old. In 2014 Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace at 17 years old for her attributes to children’s rights. Malala became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala wrote an autobiography, Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, that was released in October of 2013. With no surprised her book rose to the top of the charts

Using the pen name “Gul Makai” to protect her identity, she describes her feelings and thoughts during the final days before her school’s closing. She uses her vulnerability to express and exercise her leadership capabilities, which is extremely admirable because she was so passionate about her beliefs that death did not stop her.

She risked her own life to make a difference in her society as well as the world. Due to her increased prominence, both in Pakistan and around the world, the Taliban target Malala. A masked gunman boards Malala’s school bus and asks for her by name. He shoots Malala in the head, neck and shoulder. Leaving her body what seemed to be lifeless. Malala survives, but remains in critical condition as she is transported to the United Kingdom to recover. She rarely showed fear, and she didn't hide her face, even though the Taliban declared that they will indefinitely kill her if she survived.

"I have the right of education," she said in a 2011 interview with CNN. "I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak