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Transcending borders: Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai receive Nobel Peace Prize

Transcending borders: Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai receive Nobel Peace Prize

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-12-10 03:56 GMT
Child rights activists India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai received this year's Nobel Prizes on Wednesday in Oslo. (Photo: Screen grab)
Malala Yousafzai, stands with five young women she invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, Nigeria's Amina Yusuf, Pakistan's Kainat Soomro, school friend Shazia Ramzan, Syria's Mezon Almellehan and school friend Kainat Riaz, as they speak
Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to the Laureates at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. (Photo: AP)
Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. (Photo: AP)
"We have to work towards peace for children and children for peace... We have to create such a world," he said. Describing Malala as his daughter, he said she is the bravest child one can think of. (Photo: AP)
"Even if one single child is in danger then the entire world is in danger," Satyarthi said here at a joint press conference with Malala on the eve of award ceremony. (Photo: AP)
Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, with Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland attend a press conference in Oslo. (Photo: AP)
A Nobel Peace Center worker poses for photographs beside the blood stained school uniform joint Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai was wearing when she was shot by the Taliban, as it is displayed next to an image Malala on a screen at left at
Satyarthi was also optimistic that the government would do more to protect the rights of children. “We need more and more MPs to raise this issue in Parliament and laws to abolish child labour in India". (Photo: AP)
Both Yousafzai and Satyarthi have been applauded globally for their work in helping to improve the lives of children. The prize has also been awarded as part of the committee’s efforts to unite India and Pakistan, given the uneasy relationship on
Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai, 17, will share $1.1 million Peace Prize at Oslo while all the other awards will be presented here. “I want to dedicate this award to the children of India. This award is for them. It is also for the people of India,” an
The teenage child rights activist said it was her wish that Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the awards ceremony. “It would have been a great thing,” she said. (Photo: AP)
The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday (
"I thank my parents, my father for letting me be me, and not clipping my wings," Malala Yousafzai giving her speech.
"The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep, see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play, free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream" - Child rights
Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India hold their Nobel Peace Prize diplomas and medals during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. (Photo: AP)
Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai receiving this year's Nobel Prizes on Wednesday in Oslo. (Photo: AP)
Transcending borders: Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai receive Nobel Peace Prize

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