April 11, 2017
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On April
11, 2017 United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres
has bestowed the highest honour UN Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. She was described as a symbol of the most
important thing in the world-education for all. With this, she became youngest
ever UN Messenger of Peace.
About Malala Yousafzai: Malala was
born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora city in Swat province of Pakistan. At the age
of 11 she had caught international attention as female education activist after
writing for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistan under pseudonym
Gul Makai. Her campaign had led to a Taliban assassination attempt near that
left her severely wounded after she was shot in head in 2012.
Awards and Honours: In 2014, at the age of 17 she was awarded Nobel
peace prize, becoming youngest Nobel Laureate in the history of Nobel award.
National Youth Peace Prize (2011), Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice
(2012), Simon de Beauvoir Prize (2013), Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
(2013), Anna Politkovskaya Award (2013). UN has declared 12 July as ‘Malala
Day’ in her honour.
United Nations
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Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
She was described as a symbol of the most important thing in the
world-education for all. With this, she became youngest ever UN
Messenger of Peace.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
She was described as a symbol of the most important thing in the
world-education for all. With this, she became youngest ever UN
Messenger of Peace.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
She was described as a symbol of the most important thing in the
world-education for all. With this, she became youngest ever UN
Messenger of Peace.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
She was described as a symbol of the most important thing in the
world-education for all. With this, she became youngest ever UN
Messenger of Peace.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
United Nations (UN)
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has bestowed the highest honour UN
Messenger of Peace upon Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
She was described as a symbol of the most important thing in the
world-education for all. With this, she became youngest ever UN
Messenger of Peace.
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/category/awards-in-current-affairs
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