Malala Yousafzai: Activist for education

Malala Yousafzai addresses students and faculty after receiving the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 27, 2013.

European lawmakers have awarded their top human rights prize to Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year.

Yousafzai receives a trophy from Yemeni Civil Rights activist and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman after being honored with the International Children's Peace Prize at the Ridderzaal in the Hague, the Netherlands, Sept. 6, 2013.

Pakistani girls arrive for class at a school in Mingora, a town in Swat valley, on the first anniversary of the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban, Oct. 9, 2013.

Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says she has not done enough to deserve the award, as her former school closed Oct. 9 to mark the first anniversary of her shooting by the Taliban.

An Indian salesman arranges copies of Yousafzai's recently-released memoir, "I Am Malala" at a bookstore in Ahmedabad, Oct. 9, 2013.

Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Malala Yousafzai , motions to the crowd before his daughter's speech at the United Nations (UN) Youth Assembly in New York City, July 12, 2013.

The United Nations declared July 12, "Malala Day."

Yousafzai addresses an assembly before receiving the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013 at the Manison House in Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 17, 2013.

The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's highest honour, recognizing individuals who have promoted and enhanced the cause of human rights through their life and by example.

Toorpekai Yousafzai, mother of Malala Yousafzai, listens to her daughter's speech at the United Nations (UN) Youth Assembly, July 12, 2013.

Malala Yousafzai receives the RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Award from Nicholas Winton (L) at the Southbank Centre in central London, Oct. 4, 2013.

A gallery worker poses with a painted portrait of Malala Yousafzai, by Jonathan Yeo at the National Portrait Gallery in central London, Sept. 10, 2013.

Yousafzai gives a speech after receiving the RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Award at the Southbank Centre in central London, Oct. 4, 2013.

Queen of Jordan, Rania Al Abdullah, awards The Leadership in Civil Society to Malala Yousafzai, at the Clinton Global Citizen Award ceremony in New York, Sept. 25, 2013.

Yousafzai receives the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013 from U2 singer Bono (R) as Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International looks on, Sept. 17, 2013.

Pakistani hospital workers carry Malala Yousafzai, 14, on a stretcher at a hospital following an attack by gunmen, Oct. 9, 2012.

The teenage Pakistani children's rights activist was shot in the head in an assassination attempt as she boarded a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, officials said.

Yousafzai attends a conversation with United Nations Secretary General Ban-ki Moon and other youth delegates at the United Nations Youth Assembly, July 12, 2013.

Yousafzai waves as she officially opens The Library of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, Sept. 3, 2013.

Yousafzai pauses for photo while attending the United Nations Youth Assembly in New York City, July 12, 2013.

A young Pakistani girl works on her mid-term papers in a school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, Oct 5, 2013.

One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.

But still the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms.

Female Pakistani students sit next to remains of broken benches in a school in Mingora, Malala Yousafzai's hometown in Pakistan, Oct. 8, 2013.

Pakistani school girls pray for the recovery of gunshot victim, Malala Yousafzai, in Multan, Oct. 10, 2012.

A female Pakistani student reads a chapter during a class in a school in Mingora, Malala Yousafzai's hometown in Pakistan, Oct. 8, 2013.

Pakistani leaders of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) sit beside a photograph of child activist Malala Yousafzai during a protest procession against the assassination attempt by Taliban, in Karachi, Oct. 14, 2012.

Kainaat Riaz, 16, a school friend of Pakistan's child activist Malala Yousafzai, studies at her residence in Mingora in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, Nov. 10, 2012.

Riaz, 16, suffered a hand injury when Islamist gunmen attacked her school bus in a bid to kill Malala for the "crime" of promoting girls' education.

Yousafzai speaks with Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for global Education and former Prime Minister of the UK, during a World School Day event in New York, Sept. 23, 2013.

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Yousafzai sits up in her hospital bed with her father Ziauddin and her two younger brothers, Atal Khan (R) and Khushal Khan (C), in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Oct. 26, 2012.

15 year-old Malala was being treated in the UK after she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan two weeks before.

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Yousafzai says goodbye to nurses as she leaves the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Jan. 4, 2013.

Pakistani students carry placards with the photographs of child activist Malala Yousafzai during a protest against the assassination attempt by the Taliban on Malala in Lahore, Oct. 16, 2012.

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Yousufzai lies on a bad as she recovers in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, October 2012.

Pakistani hospital workers carry injured Malala Yousafzai, 14, on a stretcher at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in Mingora, Oct. 9, 2012.

Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik puts final touches on a sand sculpture in honor of Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai at Puri beach, Oct. 16, 2012.

Pakistani civil society activists carry placards with a photograph of the gunshot victim Malala Yousafzai as they shout ant-Taliban slogans during a protest rally in Islamabad, Oct. 10, 2012.

Pakistani police officials inspect the school van in which child activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head in a Taliban assassination attempt, at a police station in Mingora, Oct. 12, 2012.

A poster of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai is displayed by ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) activists in a ceremony to mark Malala Day in Islamabad, Nov. 10, 2012.