Malala Yousafzai awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot by the Taliban, has jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthai?
While Malala Yousafzai may garner most of the attention after today's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, the award was also shared with an Indian human rights activist called Kailash Satyarthai.
His organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, describes itself as "the largest grassroots movement against child labour, child trafficking and child servitude".
The movement, known in English as 'Save the Childhood', is credited with freeing and rehabilitating tens of thousands of children who faced a miserable existence.
Here is how the Nobel Peace Prize Committee described Satyarthai's work:
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