Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize Today
by The Daily Eye Team December 11 2014, 1:33 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 56 secsIndia’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their fight against the oppression of children and their right to education, will today receive the award at a ceremony in Oslo. “Even if one single child is in danger then the entire world is in danger,” Mr Satyarthi, 60, said on Tuesday at a joint press conference with 17-year-old Malala, with whom he will share the $ 1.1 million prize. “We are not here just to accept our award and get this medal and go back home, no, we are here to tell the children especially that you need to stand up, you need to speak up for your rights,” said the teen, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education. Describing Malala as a “wonderful girl”, Mr Satyarthi said she is the bravest child one could think of. “She’s like my daughter, I adore and respect her a lot,” he said.