In Photos: 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

  • Malala Yousafzai raises her hands with some of the escaped kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok during a news conference in Abuja, Nigeria on July 14, 2014.
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  • Malala Yousafzai walks alongside Syrian refugee Mazoon Rakan after attending a press conference at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanian border with Syria on Feb. 18, 2014.
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  • Malala Yousafzai attends an award ceremony to receive her 2013 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on Nov. 20, 2013.
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  • Malala Yousafzai poses for pictures before an event launching her memoir "I Am Malala" at the Southbank Centre in London on Oct. 20, 2013.
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  • Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip meet Malala Yousafzai during a Reception for Youth, Education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London on Oct. 18, 2013.
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  • The Obama family meets with Malala Yousafzai in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Oct. 11, 2013.
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  • Malala Yousafzai raises a trophy after being honored with the International Children's Peace Prize in the Netherlands, on Sept. 6, 2013.
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  • Malala Yousafzai was on the cover of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2013.
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  • Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai speaks before the United Nations Youth Assembly in New york on July 12, 2013.
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  • Malala Yousafzai sits up in her hospital bed with her father and her two younger brothers, on Oct. 26, 2012, in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The 15 year-old Malala was being treated after she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan two weeks earlier.
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  • Malala Yousafzai lives in the Swat Valley with her family seen here on March 26, 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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By Charlotte Alter
October 10, 2014 7:10 AM EDT
Charlotte Alter is a national correspondent for TIME
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