Peace prize split by Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi, fighters for children’s right to education By Ari Yashar The Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo selected children’s rights advocates Pakistani 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and Indian Kailash Satyarthi as winners of the prize for 2014. Yousafzai gained recognition after being shot in the head by Taliban terrorists in 2012 for her stance of advocating women’s education. She miraculously recovered from her wounds, but her struggle apparently still has a long way to go in Pakistan – a major network of 40,000 schools in the country banned her book Â...
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