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Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win 2014 Nobel peace prize

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize.

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Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win 2014 Nobel peace prize

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  1. Pakistan's MalalaYousafzai, Indian activist KailashSatyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize Combination picture of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners, Indian children's right activist KailashSatyarthi (L) at his office in New Delhi October 10, 2014, and Pakistani schoolgirl activist MalalaYousafzai at the United Nations in the Manhattan borough of New York in a file picture taken August 18, 2014.

  2. Born:11 January 1954 (age 60) Vidisha, Madhya Bharat, India - now Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India Nationality:Indian Education:Engineering Occupation:Activist for children's rights and children's education Known for: Activism Religion Hindu[1] Awards:Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Medal of the Italian Senate Alfonso Comin International Award International Peace Prize, Germany Defenders of Democracy Award 2014 Nobel Peace Prize[2]

  3. KailashSatyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He founded the BachpanBachaoAndolan in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of 80,000 children. 

  4. Indian children's right activist KailashSatyarthi gestures as he speaks with the media at his office in New Delhi October 10, 2014. Satyarthi and Pakistani teenager Malala won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. 

  5. Born: July 12, 1997 (age 17), Mingora, Pakistan Education: Edgbaston High School Books: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Parents: Tor PekaiYousafzai, ZiauddinYousafzai Awards: Sakharov Prize, National Malala Peace Prize, more Nominations: Nobel Peace Prize, International Children's Peace Prize

  6. MalalaYousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, who became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

  7. Pakistani schoolgirl MalalaYousafzai, the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, waves after speaking at Birmingham library in Birmingham, central England October 10, 2014. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labour KailashSatyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

  8. Nobel peace prize winners: award is a boost for children’s rights worldwide The winners of the Nobel peace prize, the Pakistani teenage activist MalalaYousafzai and KailashSatyarthi, an Indian children’s rights advocate, said the award represented a huge boost to the cause of children’s rights around the world.

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