“Malala Yousafzai's struggle for girls to be educated in deeply conservative parts of Pakistan led to her being shot and nearly killed by the Taliban two years ago, while her relentless campaign for women's rights was rewarded Friday when she was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala, who moved to Britain for treatment and later settled there, tirelessly continued her campaign for a woman's right to an education in Pakistan and won international recognition for her struggle. In Pakistan her campaign lives on, as young girls and women struggle to get an education. Here are a series of images by Muhammed Muheisen and the late Anja Niedringhaus focusing on the education of young girls in Malala's hometown of Mingora, in the Swat Valley, and in the outskirts of the capital Islamabad”. – The Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014, photo, Pakistani schoolgirls cross a stream of sewage and rubbish that separates their neighborhood from the main road, heading to their school in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, November 15, 2012 file photo, Pakistani girls gather under a poster of Malala Yousufzai in her old school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Friday, October 4, 2013 file photo, Pakistani children crowd on a bus after being picked up from school in Wajah Khiel, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, November 15, 2012 file photo, a young girl peeks out from the barred entrance to her school waiting for her fellow students to arrive at Khushal School for Girls in Mingora, Swat Valley Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, February 4, 2014, photo, Afghan refugee children repeat numbers displayed by their teacher during their class at a makeshift school set up in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, January 28, 2014, photo, Pakistani children, whose families were displaced from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, hold booklets of Urdu alphabets and verses of the Quran, and repeat after their teacher during their daily Madrassa, or Islamic school, at a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, October 5, 2013 file photo, a young Pakistani girl works on her mid-term papers in a school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, September 23, 2014, photo, Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani school children attend their classes at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, October 5, 2013 file photo, Pakistani children attend class in a school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Monday, August 11, 2014, photo, Afghan refugee girls listen to their teacher during their daily Madrassa, or Islamic school, at a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Monday, March 10, 2014, photo, a Pakistani health worker, left, checks with a teacher whether schoolchildren need a polio vaccine at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, November 15, 2012 file photo, Pakistani school children gather at the patio of the Khushal School for Girls in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Wednesday, November 15, 2012 file photo, a young girl in her colorful dress reaches out to greet a Pakistani policeman securing the road outside Kainat Riaz's home in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, August 19, 2014, photo, Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani school children attend their first day of school in a makeshift classroom on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)