Presentation on influential women around the world

1. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
BY: THE CITY SCHOOL, CHENAB CAMPUS, FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN

2. Malala Yousafzai
 Born: 12th July, 1997
 Nationality: Pakistani
 Occupation: Student, humanitarian, former blogger for BBC urdu
ABOUT MALALA:
 Activist for female education
 Known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in
her native Swat Valley in the KPK province of Pakistan
 Went against the local Taliban who at times banned girls from attending
school to provide education to the young girls

3. Malala Yousafzai (CONT’D)
PUBLIC APPEARENCES:
 Spoke before the United Nations in July-2013 and met Queen Elizabeth II
in Buckingham Palace
 Spoke at Harvard University in Sept-2013
 Met the US President and his family in Oct-2013 and confronted him on
the use of drone strikes in Pakistan
 Addressed the Oxford union in Dec-2013
 Spoke at the Girl Summit at London, advocating for rights for girls, in July-
2014
 Donated $50,000 through the UNRWA to help rebuild 65 schools in Gaza,
in Oct-2014

4. Malala Yousafzai (CONT’D)
WORKS:
 Co-wrote a Novel, “I AM MALALA: The story of the girl who stood for
education and was shot by the Taliban”, with British journalist Christina
Lamb
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
 Youngest ever Nobel prize laureate
 Received the World Children’s Prize for the rights of children in Mariefred,
Sweden
 National Youth peace price
 Anne Frank Award for Moral courage
 Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan’s third highest civilian bravery award

5. Malala Yousafzai (CONT’D)
 Mother Teresa award for social Justice
 Rome prize for peace and humanitarian action
 International children’s peace prize, KidsRights
 And Many others

6. Ayesha Farooq
 Born: 24th August, 1987
 Nationality: Pakistani
 Occupation: Flight Lieutenant
ABOUT AYESHA:
 One of the five women who have become pilots in the Pakistan Air Force
 First of six female fighter pilots in the force to pass the final exams to
qualify for the battle
 Flying missions in a Chinese-made F7PG fighter jet
 Pakistan’s only female war-ready fighter pilot right now

7. Dr Ruth Pfau
 Born: 9th September, 1929
 Nationality: German-Pakistani
 Occupation: Doctor (Fighting leprosy in Pakistan)
ABOUT Dr. Ruth:
 Member of the society of daughters of the heart of Mary
 Devoted the last 50 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan
 Started with medical treatment for the leprosy patients in a hut in a slum
quarter on McLeod Road, Karachi
 Collected donations in Germany and Pakistan and cooperated with
hospitals in Rawalpindi and Karachi, Paksitan

8. Dr Ruth Pfau(CONT’D)
 Awarded Pakistani citizenship in 1988 due to her outstanding contributions
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
 Civilian award at President’s House on 23rd March, 1989
 Hilal-i-Pakistan
 Nishan-i-Quaid-e-Azam
 Order of Merit, Germany
 Ramon Magsaysay Award
 Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

9. Oprah Winfrey
 Born: 29th January, 1954
 Nationality: American
 Occupation: Former host of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’, Chairwoman and
CEO of Harpo Productions, Chairwoman, CEO and CCO of the Oprah
Winfrey network, Actress and Author
ABOUT OPRAH:
 Ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century
 Greatest black philanthropist in American history
 North American’s only black billionaire
 Born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother

10. Oprah Winfrey(CONT’D)
 By 2012, she had given away about $400 million to educational causes
 Donated $12 million to Smithsonian’s national museum of African
American history and culture
 Created the Oprah’s Angel Network, a charity that supported charitable
projects and provided grants to nonprofit organizations around the world
 Personally gave $10 million to the hurricane katrina

11. Oprah Winfrey(CONT’D)
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
 Lifetime achievement award
 Bob Hope humanitarian award
 Roger Horchow award for greatest public service by a private citizen
 Presidential medal of freedom
 Jean Hersholt humanitarian
 And many others

12. Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi
 Born: 4th February, 1962
 Nationality: Emirati
 Occupation: Minister for Foreign Trade, UAE and former Minister of
economic and planning, UAE
ABOUT LUBNA KHALID AL QASIMI:
 Holds the distinction of being the first woman to hold a ministerial post in
the UAE
 Member of the ruling family of Sharjah
 In March 2014, she was appointed President of Zayed University

13. Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi(CONT’D)
 Listed as the 42nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes
 Sits on various boards at organizations aside from responsibilities as
Minister of Foreign trade
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
 Honorary doctorate of science from California State University, Chico.
 ITP Best personal achievement award
 Datamatix IT woman of the year
 Datamatix outstanding contribution
 World summit award for tejari.com
 And Many others

14. Gulalai Ismail
 Born: 1986
 Nationality: Pakistani
 Occupation: Human rights activist and chairperson of Aware Girls
ABOUT GULALAI:
 Established the organisation Aware Girls in 2002, aiming to challenge the
culture of violence and the oppression of women in the KPK province,
Pakistan
 Chairing Ismail set up the seeds of peace network, founded in 2010
 The network is training young people in human rights and political
leadership and encouraging the participation of women in Politics in
Pakistan

15. Gulalai Ismail(CONT’D)
AWARD AND HONOURS:
 YouthActionNet fellowship
 2013 Democracy award from the National endowment for democracy
 Acknowledged as one of the 100 leading global thinkers of 2013 by
foreign policy magazine
 Board member of the women’s global network on reproductive rights
(2010-12)
 Awarded international humanist of the year by International Humanist and
Ethical Union in Oxford, England

16. Anne Frank Late
 Born: 12th June, 1929
 Nationality: German until 1941, Stateless from 1941
 Occupation: Diarist and writer
ABOUT ANNE FRANK:
 One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the holocaust
 Her wartime diary “The dairy of a young girl” has been the basis for several
plays and films
 The diary documents her experiences hiding during the German
occupation of the Netherlands in World War II

17. Anne Frank Late (CONT’D)
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
 Anne Frank Centre, a not-for-profit educational organization, has been set
up in the U.S
 Anne Frank Humanitarian award was introduced which honors outstanding
humanitarian efforts by high-school juniors
 Anne Frank prize, a literary award, was introduced