India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai Received 2014 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo,Norway Wednesday Dec 10,2014

 

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai(17) received the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday Dec 10,2014 as the youngest ever laureate, sharing her award with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi(60)

 

“A young girl and a somewhat older man, one from Pakistan and one from India, one Muslim, the other Hindu; both symbols of what the world needs: more unity. Fraternity between the nations!” Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, said at the ceremony in Oslo

Kailash Satyarthi was recognised by the Nobel committee for a 35-year battle to free thousands of children from virtual slave labour. 

“I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms. I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be... stronger than the quest for freedom,” Kailash Satyarthi said after receiving the prize

Kailash Satyarthi’s organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan prides itself on liberating more than 80,000 children from bonded labour in factories and workshops across India and has networks of activists in more than 100 countries. 

According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) there are about 168 million child labourers around the world. 

Malala Yousafzai became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in October 2012 for insisting that girls had a right to an education. 

 

Pakistani students pay tribute to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai in Lahore, Pakistan

Malala has already been honoured with a host of awards, standing ovations and plaudits everywhere from the United Nations to Buckingham Palace. 

On the eve of the ceremony, she said she would not rest on her laurels, saying she would like one day to become prime minister in her native Pakistan. 

“If I can serve my country best through politics and through becoming a prime minister then I would definitely choose that. I want to serve my country and my dream is that my country becomes a developed country and I see every child get an education,” 

Family members of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala

The awards ceremony was rudely interrupted by a young man who stormed onto the stage

 

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 Nobel Peace Prize laureates Malala Yousafzai (front) and Kailash Satyarthi (back) wave from the balcony of Grand Hotel during a torchlight procession

Nobel winners receive eight million Swedish kronor (Rs 6.80 crore approx), which is shared in the case of joint wins. 

The Peace Prize is the only Nobel award handed to recipients in Oslo,Norway

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala attended a Save the Children peace prize party before the ceremony

 

Indian Nobel Prize Winners List

Pakistan Nobel Prize Winners List

• Abdus Salam for Physics in 1979
• Malala Yosufzai for Peace in 2014