Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani women’s rights activist who became the youngest ever person to be awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ when she won the ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ in 2014. Malala is mainly known for her advocacy of female education in her native Swat Valley, Pakistan. Born into a family of progressive thinkers and educationists, Malala started expressing her frustration over the restrictive practices of the Taliban in an anonymous blog when she was just 11 years old. Very mature and intelligent for her age, Malala wrote about how the Taliban were attempting to control the valley and trying to prevent girls from going to school. Her blog gained much prominence around the world and she soon became popular as an emerging activist who campaigned for girls’ rights to education. Encouraged by her father to freely express her thoughts, she became more vocal in voicing her opinion of women’s rights to education. This angered the Taliban which issued a death threat against her. She was shot by a gunman when she was returning from school. The gutsy girl survived the horrific attack and returned to activism even more determined than before.