Malala will be in SP for a debate on education and the role of women | Education

Public school students and NGO representatives will also participate in the meeting, which will be broadcast live on Itaú's social networks.

On October 9, 2012, Malala was the target of a Taliban firing squad. She was in a school bus with other girls returning home after another day of school in Swat, an ultraconservative region of northern Pakistan. At the time, she was 15 years old and publicly advocated for the right to girls' education. The Taliban are against the education of women.

Today, Malala is one of the world 's leading activists who advocate the right of all girls to education. Her humanitarian work has brought her to various parts of the world where this right is threatened.

"When I did not come back from school that day in 2012, my mother wondered if I would see my room again, if she would ever have a quiet moment with her daughter in our house," he said. "To see me there made my mother so happy, she said," Malala has left Pakistan with her eyes closed, now she comes back with her eyes open. "

She has also won numerous awards, including the Children's Peace Prize, the Anna Politkovskaya Prize, the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights of the European Parliament, in 2013 and the Medal of the Freedom, National Constitutional Center In 2017, she received Canadian citizenship in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and was also the youngest person to receive honor, given names like Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, and to address Canadian MPs and Senators at a joint session.