Malala Yousafzai, who demanded that girls be allowed to get an education, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan in 2012.
Gabrielle Giffords, a retired member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shot in a Safeway parking lot in Arizona in 2011.
“Malala is a testament that women everywhere will not be intimidated into silence,” Giffords wrote in the May 5-12 issue of Time magazine.
“We will speak, no matter how hard it is to do so.”
