巴基斯坦少女馬拉拉榮獲歐洲最高人權獎
The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted for a Taliban attack for her efforts to promote education for women.
European Union lawmakers announced the winner of the $65,000 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Thursday in Brussels.
Malala was 11 when she became an activist for women's education, freedom, and self-determination in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where women were banned by the Taliban from attending school in 2009. She began a blog, writing under a pseudonym, and quickly became a prominent voice for women's rights.
She survived a nearly fatal Taliban assassination attempt while riding a school bus in 2012 and underwent multiple surgeries in Britain to remove a bullet to the neck and alleviate the swelling of her brain.
Since then, she has remained in Britain but resumed her activism, addressing the United Nations in July and publishing a memoir earlier this week, on the first anniversary of her attack.歐洲聯盟將歐洲最高人權獎頒發給巴基斯坦維權少女馬拉拉.尤薩法扎伊。馬拉拉因爲婦女爭取受教育的權利而遭到塔利班武裝分子的槍擊。
歐盟星期四在布魯塞爾宣佈把鼓勵思想自由的“薩哈羅夫獎”頒發給馬拉拉。獎金爲6萬5千美元。
馬拉拉11歲時就成爲活動人士，呼籲巴基斯坦斯瓦特河谷地區提倡婦女自由以及女性受教育和自決的權利。2009年當地的塔利班禁止女孩上學讀書。馬拉拉開始寫博客，以筆名撰文，很快成爲維護女性權利的突出聲音。
2012年她在校車上遭到塔利班武裝分子幾乎是致命的槍擊。後來她在英國接受多次手術，去除了頸部的一顆子彈，並通過手術減輕腦部腫脹。
她雖此後一直住在英國，但恢復了維權活動。她今年7月在聯合國發表演講，並在本週早些時候她被槍擊一週年的時候出版了回憶錄。
