MALALA
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school student and education activist. She is known for her education and women¨s rights activism in Pakistan where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. When Malala was 11 years old she wrote a blog for the BBC detailing her life under the Taliban rule. The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life and she began to rise in prominence, giving interviews in print and on TV. She has since been nominated for the International Children´s Peace Prize. A number of prominent individuals, including the Canadian Prime Minister, are supporting a petition to nominate Malala for the Nobel Peace Prize.
A fairly surprising decision, the Nobel Committee awarded this year's peace prize to ..............................................................
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