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              Activists Malala, Satyarthi Accept Nobel Peace Prize

   by VOA News

   Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights
   advocate Kailash Satyarthi made history Wednesday as they accepted this
   year's[1] Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

   The 17-year-old Malala is the youngest Nobel laureate, while Satyarthi
   is the first Indian-born peace prize winner.

   Malala, in accepting her award, said: This "is for the forgotten
   children who want education."

   During her speech, Malala said it is time to take action to help
   children, not to pity them, "so it becomes the last time that we see a
   child deprived of education."

   "Education is one of the blessings of life-and one of its necessities.
   That has been my experience during the 17 years life. We had a thirst
   for education because our future was right there in that classroom. We
   would sit and read and learn together," she said.

   Satyarthi, who has worked to end child slavery, said his goal is for
   every child to be "free to be a child." He added that there is "no
   greater violence than to deny the dreams of children."

   The two are sharing the award's $1.1 million prize.

   Education rights

   Malala has dedicated her life to promoting girls' rights to education.
   She was shot in the head by the Taliban on her school bus in 2012.

   Ahead of the event, the teen laureate issued an open letter to world
   leaders urging them to use 2015 to make the world safer and more just
   for children.

   She said that while the peace prize shows generations can "demand a
   better world for children," there must also be a call for actions "to
   ensure every child can be certain of a better future."

   The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the winners in October, saying
   Malala and Satyarthi received the prize jointly for "their struggle
   against the suppression of children and young people and for the right
   of all children to an education."

   Satyarthi has spent more than three decades advancing a movement to
   free children from child labor.
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References

   1. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/
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