Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi share Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activis...

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, the Nobel committee announced in Oslo on Friday.

Still a high school student, Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest winner in history of a prize that is infrequently awarded to women. She was at school in Birmingham, England, when the prize was announced. Her first statement came only after the end of her school day, when she expressed gratitude for the award and emphasized: "This is not the end. … I want to see every child going to school and getting an education."

Both Yousafzai and Satyarthi have made exceptional sacrifices, facing the very real possibility of death for their work advocating children’s rights and education.

Activists Kailash Satyarthi, left, and Malala Yousafzai jointly received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Satyarthi of India has spent decades battling child slavery. Yousafzai of Pakistan, at 17, the youngest Nobel recipient, has spent much of her young life fighting for women's education.

The decision was also packed with symbolism: a shared award for a Pakistani and an Indian, both struggling for children’s rights in two neighboring rival powers, whose disputed borders in Kashmir have been wracked by intense shelling in recent days. The difference in the recipients’ ages -- 17 and 60 -- underscored that the struggle for fundamental human rights is everyone’s business, no matter how young or old.

The committee said the pair will receive the award “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” The committee “regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.”

Source: Los Angeles Times

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