Award

Malala Yousafzai has wins awards and gets honors

 

• 25 October 2011, International Children's Peace Prize (runner-up).

The Dutch international children's advocacy group KidsRights Foundation included Yousafzai as one of five nominees worldwide for the prize, after Desmond Tutu nominated her in October 2011. She was the first Pakistani girl ever nominated for the award. The announcement said "Malala dared to stand up for herself and other girls and used national and international media to let the world know girls should also have the right to go to school". She was the runner-up.

• 19 December 2011, Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani awarded Yousafzai with Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize for those under 18 years old — subsequently renamed the National Malala Peace Prize. Speaking to the media after attending the proceedings, Yousafzai expressed her wish to form her own political party comprising people working for the cause of education, saying “my party will operate in all four provinces.” On Yousafzai’s request, the prime minister directed the authorities to set up an IT campus in the Swat Degree College for Women.

• 3 January 2012, Malala Yousafzai Government Girls Secondary School.

The Government Girls Secondary School on Mission Road, Karachi, was renamed in her honor.

• 13 January 2012, Tribune Gamechanger.

The Express Tribune named Yousafzai in their list of "Gamechangers 2011".

• 15 October 2012, Pakistan's third-highest civilian bravery award.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Malik said that Yousafzai was a symbol of bravery and will be honored with the Sitara-e-Shujaat award.

• Authorities in Pakistan's Swat Valley, the area she is from, said they would rename a government girls' college in her honour.

• In 2012, she was named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers.

• On 26 November 2012, she was nominated for Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2012, and on December 19, she was announced one of four "runners-up" for the award.

• 28 November 2012, Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice.

Mumbai based Harmony Foundation awarded their 2012 prize to Malala along with Afghani women's rights activist Sima Samar, who has also received death threats from the Taliban. Malala's family was denied permission to attend the award ceremony by Pakistani authorities over security concerns, so the award was smuggled to her father by British-Pakistani film maker Sevy Ali.

• Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action.

On 29 December 2012, the Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno on behalf of the city government of Rome presented Yousufzai the 2012 edition of the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action. An Italian human rights activist Angela Stiena said "We love Malala for her great cause and fight for the rights female education. She is no more an individual, we are all with her." The prize was collected by Malala's father, Ziauddin. A month previously, Malala Yousufzai had also been honoured with honorary citizenship of Rome, with the document being received by the Ambassador of Pakistan to Italy Tehmina Janjua on her behalf.

• On 1 January 2013, “2012 Tipperary International Peace Award” for her courage and determination to speak out in support of equal access to education for every child.

• Simone de Beauvoir Prize in 2013.