Malala wins human rights award as Pakistan’s leading voice for women’s education amid violence

Shot schoolgirl Malala receives top Amnesty award | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

AFP – Rights group Amnesty International announced on Tuesday it had awarded its highest honour to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot in the head last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education. Malala will share the 2013 Prize. Malala and US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden have also been nominated for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. Malala, who has become emblematic.