Girls are Taking Action - We Celebrate Courage   Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎, born 1998) is a student from the town of Mingora in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan, known for her women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban regime has banned girls from attending school. In 2009, at the age of 11, Yousafzai came to prominence through a blog she wrote for the BBC, detailing her life under the Tehrik-i-Taliban regime and their attempts to take control … [Read more...]