Seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday for her work in furthering education for children. Malala, a schoolgirl and education campaigner from Pakistan who was shot twice in the head by the Taliban in 2012, accepted the award with humility and grace.”I really believe in peace. I really believe in tolerance and patience. I used to say that I do not think I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. I still believe that,” said Yousafzai as she addressed a crowd in Birmingham, UK. In true form, Yousafzai waited until after her school day was complete to speak to the press, hours after the Nobel Prize’s announcement (she got word of the win while in chemistry class).
“Despite her youth, Malala YousafzaI has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations,” the Nobel committee said in a statement. “This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights to education.” Yousafzai, and Kailash Satyarthi of India, shared the Nobel Peace Prize for work fighting extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives.
Yousafzai said that the award going to people from the two neighboring countries demonstrated a new step in the peace process between the often-feuding nations. “We will try to build strong relationships between India and Pakistan,” she said, adding that she and Satyarthi planned to invite the leaders of their countries to the official acceptance event. Yousafzai said she hoped that her receipt of the award would encourage children internationally to speak out for their rights. “I decided that I would speak up. Through my story I want to tell other children all around the world they should stand up for their rights,” said Yousafzai. “They should not wait for someone else. This award is especially for them, it gives them courage.”
Yousafzai have travelled to many country, She was recently in Nigeria where she had a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on the issue of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram elements from Government Girls Secondary School in April 2014. Meanwhile, 60-year old Satyarthi has shown great personal courage in heading peaceful demonstrations focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain, the committee said. Satyarthi told reporters that the award was about many more people than him — and that credit should go to all those ‘sacrificing their time and their lives for the cause of child rights’ and fighting child slavery. ‘It is a great honour for all those children who are deprived of their childhood globally,’ he said. ‘It’s an honour to all my fellow Indians who have got this honour — it’s not just an honour for me, it’s an honour for all those fighting against child labour globally.’...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday, October 10 to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people’s rights, including the right to education. Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said ‘Children must go to school, not be financially exploited.’ Yousafzai achieved to global recognition in 2012 after the Taliban shot her in the head in her native Pakistan for her efforts to promote education for girls in the country. Since then, she has increased the volume of her campaign even and has taken her campaign to several places in the world. Through her heroic struggle, she has become a leading spokeswoman for girls’ rights to education, said Jagland and according to the Nobel committee, at 17 she’s the youngest ever peace prize winner.
The Pakistani education activist who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban in October 2012, called for world leaders to protect rights to equality and education in an address at the United Nations on her 16th birthday....
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