NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS - 2014
The Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2014 has been jointly awarded to Indian rights activist Kailash Satyarthy and Pakistan's Malala Yusafzai.
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist. He runs Bachpan Bachao Andolan Group in New Delhi, which has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education. He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s.Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil, education activist. She was shot shot at by the Taliban in 2012 for protesting against curbs on girls attending school in her town in the Swat Valley.
Highlights
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist. He runs Bachpan Bachao Andolan Group in New Delhi, which has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education. He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s.Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil, education activist. She was shot shot at by the Taliban in 2012 for protesting against curbs on girls attending school in her town in the Swat Valley.
Highlights
- An Indian wins the coveted Nobel Prize for peace after 35 years.
- Satyarthy is the second Indian after Mother Teresa, to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Malala at 17 years is the youngest ever winner of the prestigious peace award.
- Malala is Pakistan's first Nobel laureate.
