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Yousafzai was educated in large part by her father. The Taliban had set an edict that no girls could attend school in  Jan 2009. The group had already blown up more than a hundred girls’ schools.

 

“How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Yousafzai asked throughout the region. She also began appearing on television to publicly advocate for female education.

 

On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Offers to treat Yousafzai came from around the world. On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the West Midlands.

 

The assassination attempt received worldwide media coverage and produced an outpouring of sympathy and anger. Over 2 million people signed the Right to Education campaign's petition. Responding to concerns about his safety, Yousafzai's father said, "We wouldn't leave our country if my daughter survives or not. We have an ideology that advocates peace. The Taliban cannot stop all independent voices through the force of bullets."

 

On 10 October 2014, Yousafzai was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. At age 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.