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Satyarthi, Malala to receive Nobel Peace Prize today

| | Dec 10, 2014, at 04:59 pm
Oslo, Dec 10 (IBNS): India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai will receive this year’s Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, media reports said.

The duo will receive the award for their fight against the oppression of children and their right to education.

Satyarthi, who gave up a career as an electrical engineer in 1980 to campaign against child labour, headed various forms of peaceful protest.

His organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) has been credited with freeing more than 80,000 child labourers in India over 30 years.

He estimates that about 60 million children are still at work.

On the other hand the Pakistani teen dominated Noble coverage in the media. The youngest ever Nobel laureate had survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education.

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