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A composite file photo dated 18 August 2014 showing Malala Yousafzai (L), the Pakistani teenage advocate for female education, in New York, USA, and a file photo dated 12 June 2009 (R) of children`s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi of India in Geneva, Sw
Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi have won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian Committee said on its website they were receiving the prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".
Seventeen-year-old Malala is a girls' education activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban in the north-west of Pakistan in October 2012 "for promoting secularism".
She was also nominated to take last year's award, but it went to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) instead.
Satyarthi, for his part, receives the award since he has fought for years against "the grave exploitation of children for financial gain" through various forms of peaceful protests, the Nobel committee said.
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