October 10, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
World News
The Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai for her efforts in advocating for girls’ rights to education. The award to Yousafzai makes her, at 17, the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 on a school bus as punishment for her blog on the subject. She moved to Britain to recover and escape the Taliban, and formed the Malala Fund to support local education advocacy groups in Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya. The prize was jointly awarded to Indian children’s right activist Kailash Satyarthi. Sayarthi was an electrical engineer until 1980, when he gave up that role to campaign against child labor in India. This decision poignantly comes at a time of a rise of violence and antagonism between India and Pakistan.
