Malala Yousafzai Yousafzai has been received the following national and international honours, listed by the date they were awarded: Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ("Malālah Yūsafzay": ; ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the
Crouch End Festival Chorus scale choral works by James McCarthy: "17 Days" (2012), which explores the emotional landscape of the Chilean mining accident of 2010, and "Malala" (2014), inspired by the story of Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Will Todd chose a setting of Dylan Thomas’s "Rage Against the Dying of the Light" for the second of four works commissioned to celebrate CEFC’s 30th Birthday in 2014. In 2015, CEFC gave the first performance of Roland Perrin's "Lansky: The Mob’s Money Man", a fusion of New York and Cuban jazz and traditional Jewish Klezmer music written for jazz singer, narrator, choir and jazz