Malala Yousafzai to receive Harvard award for activism

Harvard's Kennedy School says Ms Yousafzai will be handed the 2018 Gleitsman Award on Thursday

Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai (C) and her father Ziauddin Yousafzai listen to speeches during an event to commemorate the Peshawar school massacre in Birmingham, north England on December 14, 2015. On December 16, 2014 Taliban gunmen coldly slaughtered more than 150 people, most of them children, at an army-run school in Peshawar. AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS (Photo by PAUL ELLIS / AFP)

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Ehsanullah Ehsan became the face of Pakistan's bloody Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan insurgency after announcing the militants' involvement in notorious attacks such as the shooting of female education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.AFP

Associated Press

Dec 06, 2018

Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is being honored by Harvard University for her work promoting girls' education.

Harvard's Kennedy School says Ms Yousafzai will be awarded the 2018 Gleitsman Award at a ceremony on Thursday.

Ms Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 when she was recognized for her global work supporting schooling for all children.

As a teen in Pakistan, she survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She later founded the nonprofit Malala Fund to support her work.

Harvard officials say her story has inspired a generation of boys and girls to follow in her footsteps.

Now 21, Ms Yousafzai is a student at Oxford University in England.

The Gleitsman Award provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.