Malala

Between 2007 and 2011, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat, led by Maulana Fazlullah, destroyed more than 400 schools, many of them providing education for girls, the local administration says.

Taliban restrictions:

From the age of eight, females were not allowed to be in direct contact with males other than a close "blood relative", husband, or in-law .Other restrictions were:

• Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative or without wearing a burqa
• Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman’s footsteps lest it excite him
• Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice
• All ground and first floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women being visible from the street
• Photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home
• The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".
• Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses
• Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.
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“She is a very good student, and very well-mannered. There was no hint of pride in her, despite all of her fame,” Tariq Ahmed, Yousafzai’s social studies teacher, told Al Jazeera. “She was very friendly with all her classmates. She did not ask for, or receive, special treatment.”

"Religious education is for the afterlife, and the education we receive at this school is for this life."

- Ziauddin, 12, Pakistani student