NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2014
Kailash Satyarthi, 60-year-old child rights
activist from Madhya Pradesh, and Malala Yousafzai, who has risked her life to
wage a campaign for girls’ education in Pakistan, are the joint winners of this
year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
KAILASH SATYARTHI : The peace prize winner has saved thousands of
children from bonded labour in factories through the Bachpan Bachao Andolan
which he founded in 1980, and other organisations.
On Malala Yousafzai, the
Committee said, “Despite her youth, [she] has already fought for several years
for the rights of girls to education, and has shown by example that children
and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.” Malala
became a global symbol of the fight against extremism after she was shot by
Taliban militants two years ago in Swat.
