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Why did a 17 year Old Malala Win the
Nobel Prize?

The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, an
arm of the UN, later launched a petition in Malalaʼs name,
using the slogan "I am Malala", demanding that all children

Malala Yousafzai, a 17 year old girl,

worldwide be in school by the end of 2015. This petition led

from the Swat Valley in the Khyber

to Pakistan's first Right to Education Bill. Yousafzai has

Pakhtunkhwa province of North-West

spoken at the United Nations headquarters, to call for

Pakistan, was a strong advocate of

worldwide access to education. She has received a number

women being educated.

of awards, the most important of them being the Nobel
Peace Prize. She shares her prize with Kailash Satyarthi,
a children's rights activist from India.

Wow! So young and so
courageous! I wish I am
as strong as her, when
I am older.

It is Malalaʼs efforts over raising a voice against the Taliban
which many a times prevented girls from attending school,
that were recognized by the Nobel Prize committee in
Sweden.
Malalaʼs family runs a chain of schools in Swat valley, and
it was early 2009, when she was 11–12, when she wrote a
blog under a pseudonym for the BBC, detailing her life

Who is Kailash Satyarthi? And Why Did
He Win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Kailash Satyarthi was a teacher in Bhopal, before he
became the secretary general for
the Bonded Labor Liberation Front.
He also founded the Bachpan
Bachao Andolan that year, was
involved with the Global March
Against Child Labor and its
international advocacy body, the
International Center on Child Labor
and Education. These bodies are
worldwide groups of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists.

under Taliban occupation, and their attempts to take control
of the valley. Her views on promoting education for girls in
the Swat Valley, caught the attention of journalist Adam B.
Ellick, who made a documentary for the New York Times,
based on her life. It was around the time when the

Kailash Satyarthi has also served as the President of
the Global Campaign for Education, from its inception in
1999, till 2011, having been one of its four founders
alongside Action Aid, Oxfam and Education International.

Pakistani military intervened in the region, resulting in
the Second Battle of Swat. Malala then went out in the
open, giving interviews in print and on television, about her

In addition, Kailash Satyarthi has established Goodweave,

views on education for girls. After this, a South African

the first voluntary labeling, monitoring, and certification

activist Desmond Tutu nominated her for the International

system for rugs manufactured without the use of child-

Childrenʼs Peace Prize.

labour in South Asia. This organization also operated a
campaign in Europe and the US to raise awareness related
to the accountability of global corporations when it came to

It was 9 October 2012, when Yousafzai was boarding her

socially responsible consumerism.

school bus, a gunman fired three shots at her. After the
attack, she was unconscious and in critical condition. She
was later sent to England, for intensive rehabilitation.

Satyarthi has highlighted child labor as a human rights
issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He
says it propogates a number of social problems, He strives

On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan

towards "Education for All". He has been a member of

issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her, but the

a UNESCO for the Global Partnership for Education).

Taliban was hell-bent on killing Malala and her

Satyarthi serves on the board and committee of several

father, Ziauddin Yousafzai

international organisations