NOBEL-PRIZE/PEACE-MALALA Malala to receive Nobel on Wednesday

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  • Title: NOBEL-PRIZE/PEACE-MALALA Malala to receive Nobel on Wednesday
  • Date: 7th December 2014
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  • Embargoed: 22nd December 2014 12:00
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    Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize at an award ceremony on Wednesday (December 10).
    Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, has won the prize along with Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labor, Kailash Satyarthi.
    Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner and 60-year-old Satyarthi the first Indian-born winner of the accolade.
    They were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
    Yousafzai was attacked in 2012 on a school bus in the Swat Valley of northwest Pakistan by masked gunmen as a punishment for a blog that she wrote for the BBC's Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban's efforts to deny women an education.
    Unable to return to Pakistan after her recovery, Yousafzai moved to England, setting up the Malala Fund and supporting local education advocacy groups with a focus on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya.
    Yousafzai addressed the U.N. Youth Assembly last year at an event Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called "Malala Day". This year she traveled to Nigeria to demand the release of 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
    The United Nations' Childrens' Fund in South Asia said the joint award recognized "their struggle against the suppression of children and young people" in a region where nearly 17.5 million girls aged between 5 and 13 are out of school and over 12 percent of children between 5 and 14 are engaged in labor.
    The prize, worth about $1.1 million, will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the award in his 1895 will.
    The previous youngest winner was Australian-born British scientist Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father in 1915.
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