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December 10, 2014

Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo 
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The Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child
rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have been jointly awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. At age 17, Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to win a
Nobel Prize. In 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman who
boarded her school bus. She survived and continued to campaign for the
right of girls to go to school. Satyarthi, age 60, has been a leader for
decades in the international movement against child slavery and the
exploitation of child workers. At a ceremony in Oslo today, both
laureates were honored as "champions of peace."

 

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