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Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate known for championing girls' education worldwide.

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Malala Yousafzai is best known for Youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and global advocate for girls' education and human rights. On Dead or Alive, Malala Yousafzai is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Malala Yousafzai is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and global advocate for girls' education and human rights.
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Malala Yousafzai

Considering Bacha Khan, Barack Obama, and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was also inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11, she wrote a blog under her pseudonym Gul Makai for the BBC Urdu to detail her life during the Taliban's occupation of Swat. The following summer, the journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistan Armed Forces launched Operation Rah-e-Rast against the militants in Swat. In 2011, she received Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. She interned for the Swat Relief Initiative, a foundation founded by Zebunisa Jilani, a princess of the Royal House of Swat which supports schools and clinics. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu. She was struck in the head by a bullet and remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support. Governments, human rights organizations and feminist groups subsequently condemned the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. This sparked another international outcry.

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