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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai has announced her marriage. The 24-year-old Pakistani human rights campaigner who was shot by the Taliban for daring to want an ...
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1] [4] [5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17.
Malala also hopes the documentary prompts more international pressure on the Taliban to restore women's rights. "I was completely shocked when I saw the reality of the Taliban take over," she says.
Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai may seem an unlikely filmmaking duo, but the Academy Award winner and Pakistani education activist came together to produce an important new documentary. It ...
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist. He has three children, a daughter—Malala Yousafzai—and two sons—Khushal and Atal. After writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu and being subject to a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, Malala began gaining a public profile as an advocate for female education and for speaking about the conditions of life under the growing ...
She also tried to persuade children to remain in school, and to prevent child marriage. [8] Almellehan is a friend of Malala Yousafzai, whom she met in 2014 when Yousafzai was visiting the refugee camp Almellehan was staying in. Yousafzai later invited Almellehan to the ceremony at which the former received the Nobel Peace Prize. [1]
Jane Austen (1775–1817) – writer and feminist, focusing on women's rights and marriage complications through 6 novels; Clementina Black (1853–1922) – writer prominent in the Women's Trade Union League and the forerunner of the Women's Industrial Council; Helen Blackburn (1842–1903) – suffragist and campaigner for women's employment ...
Nida Manzoor, who created 'We Are Lady Parts,' talks about Season 2 of the Peacock comedy that centers on an all-female Muslim punk rock band and the power of positive villainy.