Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Nobel Prize Winner
This past week 17-year-old education activist Malala Yousafzai became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. A native of the Swat Valley region in northwest Pakistan, Yousafzai grew up in an area where the Taliban regularly forbids girls to attend school. In response to the oppressive environment, in 2009, at age 11, she began…
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