Malala Yousafzai

This Artwork Dedicated to the Bold Yound Malala. ... more

by Asp Arts

Title

Malala Yousafzai

Artist

Asp Arts

Medium

Painting - Water Colour

Description

This Artwork Dedicated to the Bold Yound Malala.

Malala Yousafzai born 12 July 1997, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

Her family runs a chain of schools in the region. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu.

She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize and the only Pakistani winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Abdus Salam was a 1979 Physics laureate. Even though she is fighting for women's and children's rights, she did not self identify as feminist when asked on Forbes Under 30 Summit.
Angela Merkel called her "the identity of Pakistan"

Uploaded

February 4th, 2015