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Taliban shooting victim Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist share Nobel Taliban shooting victim Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist share Nobel
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The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize went to advocates for children rights with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi of India sharing the award. The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize went to advocates for children’s rights with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi of India sharing the award on Friday.
Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl, became a worldwide symbol against abuses by the Taliban after she was shot in the head in 2012 by militants. She later become an advocate for girls’ education, which has drawn criticism from the Taliban and their backers. Yousafzai, a schoolgirl in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, became a worldwide symbol against abuses by the Taliban after she was shot in the head in 2012 by militants who stormed the bus she was riding with other students.
Satyarthi has fought against child labor more nearly two decades and is credited with helping free thousands of children from harsh work conditions and other forms of forced labor. Yousafzai, now 17, later become an advocate for girls’ education and has appeared in some of the most high-profile forums, including an address at the United Nations last year.
“They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed,” she said at the United Nations. “And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices.”
Her appeals, however, have angered Taliban militants and others in her native country who have opposed education for girls. She has been forced her to live in exile since her recovery.
Satyarthi, 60, has fought against child labor for nearly two decades and is credited with helping free tens of thousands of children from harsh work conditions and other forms of forced labor, including in the carpet industry and traveling circuses popular in India.
The Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway, said Satyarthi has maintained the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and headed various forms of peaceful protests, “focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain.”
There have been attempts on Satyarthi’s life, and his home was ransacked and his office in New Delhi was set on fire in 1994.
In 1998, Satyarthi’s movement organized a march across several continents, ending in Geneva.
“Instead of believing what people told me and going away quietly,” he said at the time. “I have challenged them.”