The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to educational rights campaigners from Pakistan and India, the Nobel Committee has announced. Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi share the 2014 award, reports GHN based on DW.
The Nobel Committee announced on Friday that Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi had jointly won this year's Peace Prize. They will receive the award in a ceremony in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the award in his 1895 will.
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education," the jury said.
Yousafzai, now 17, is a schoolgirl and education campaigner from Pakistan who first rose to prominence through her BBC blog advocating greater access to schooling for girls in Pakistan. In October 2012, she was shot in the head on her school bus by an attacker who had asked for her by name.
The committee said that the other winner, Satyarthi, had maintained the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and headed various forms of peaceful protests, "focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain."