He hails from Pakistani’s SWAT Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept open his own school, the Khushal Public School.
April 9, 2014. Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. The head of a school in Pakistani’s Swat Valley, a region rife with political violence, Ziauddin took great risks when he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept his own school open. Ziauddin Yousafzai understands this kind of sacrifice well. He tells stories from his own life and the life of his daughter, Malala, who was shot by the Taliban in 2012 simply for daring to go to school. For many years, Ziauddin served as a teacher and school administrator in his home country of Pakistan. He knows what it is like to take a stance against injustice and work to enact change on a global scale. 64 Copy quote I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly. The man behind the passionate teen fighting for girls’ education, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala’s father, is an educator; human rights campaigner and social activist. "Why is my daughter so strong?"
"Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com.
Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't want to hear: Women and men deserve equal opportunities for education, autonomy, an independent identity. Ziauddin Yousafzai is a teacher, education activist and co-founder of the Malala Fund with his daughter Malala, who was shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in October 2012 over her advocacy for girls’ education. On her 18th birthday (pictured), she opened the Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School in Bar Elias, Lebanon. In 2014, she became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and now studies at the University of Oxford.
Malala Yousafzai ou Malala Yousufzai (en ourdou : ملالہ یوسف زئی) est une militante pakistanaise des droits des femmes [1], née le 12 juillet 1997 à Mingora, dans la province de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, où elle s'est opposée aux talibans qui tentaient d'interdire la scolarisation des filles.
Asked to introduce himself, Ziauddin Yousafzai says: “Everyone knows me as Malala’s father.” You’d have to have been living somewhere very remote not to know of Malala, but in case you are that person, she is a young woman from Pakistan who survived after being brutally attacked and shot in the head by a Taliban gunman when she spoke up for girls’ rights to attend school.