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Malala Yousafzai was only 17
when she received a Nobel Prize for peace 

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for her struggle against the suppression
of children and young people

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and for the right of all children to education.

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Malala was born in the region known as the Swat valley in Pakistan,
which is close to the Afghanistan border.

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Her family ran several schools in the region, and as a girl
she was a good pupil and she dreamt of becoming a doctor.

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Her region had at times shifted under the control of
the Taliban, who imposed strict laws in the places

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that they control and banned the girls from taking
education under the threat of punishment or death.

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It was under these circumstances that she became more active and received international recognition.

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When she was 11 and 12, Malala wrote a blog under a pseudonym
for the BBC Urdu detailing her life under Taliban occupation,

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their attempts to take control of the valley, and her
views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley.

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In 2010, New York Times journalist Adam Ellick came to the Swat
region and made a documentary called Class Dismissed, documenting

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the perilous times of Taliban rule in the region, family exile and return
to their homeland, as well as their attempts at rebuilding the school.

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It was through this documentary that Malala became internationally known.

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She started giving interviews in print and on television, and she was
nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African

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activist Desmond Tutu, who is most famous for his struggle against the
Apartheid, for which he himself received the Nobel Peace Prize in mid 1980s.

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After seeing this documentary, we will follow Malala Yousafzai's subsequent fate and actions.