World Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize

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Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India, on friday were awarded the 2014 peace prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo by Thorbjorn Jagland, the committee’s chairman, NYTimes says.

Ms. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest recipient of the prize since it was created in 1901. Mr. Satyarthi is 60. The $1.1 million prize is to be divided equally between them.

Malala is known around the world as a human rights activist and Satyrathi is an Indian veteran of campaigns to end child labor and free children from trafficking.


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