Malala Yousafzai, 17, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, along with India's Kailash Satyarthi, 60, for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people's rights, including the right to education.
Since recovering from surgery, Yousafzai has taken her campaign to the global stage, especially with a speech at the United Nations last year.
Yousafzai's win shines a beam of light upon her efforts to make education available to children (especially girls) around the world. In early 2009, when she was only 11, Yousafzai blogged anonymously for the BBC about life under the Taliban. And in October 2012, she survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman.
Today she is the youngest Nobel Prize winner.
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