Malala Yousufzai and Kailash Satyarthi won Nobel peace award

Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize.

At the age of just 17, Malala is the youngest ever recipient of the prize.

The teenager was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls' education. She now lives in Birmingham in the UK.

The Nobel committee praised the pair's "struggle against the suppression of children and young people".

Mr Satyarthi has maintained the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and headed various forms of peaceful protests, "focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain," the committee said at the Nobel Institute in Oslo.

The 60-year-old founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or the Save the Childhood Movement, which campaigns for child rights and an end to human trafficking.

Nobel peace prize

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Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2014

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• 16 women have been awarded the prize, including Malala Yousafzai
• 17 Malala's age, making her the youngest ever laureate
• 62 average age of laureates when they were awarded the prize
• 3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo

Nobel Prize

Indian citizen laureates

The following are Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the prize.^[1]

Year	Laureates	Subject	Notes
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	First non-European laureate. As a British Indian subject, knighted in 1913 (renounced in 1919 in protest over the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre).
1930	C. V. Raman	Physics	Knighted (as a British Indian subject) in 1929.
1979	Mother Teresa	Peace	An ethnic Albanian from the region of Yugoslavia now in the Republic of Macedonia; became a naturalised Indian citizen in 1948.
1998	Amartya Sen	Economics
2014	Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	face of the Indian movement Bachpan Bachao Andolan against child labour since the 1990s