News: Nobel Peace Prize 2014 awarded to Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi

At age 17, Malala Yousafzai is the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The announcement was made this morning, Friday October 10, 2014 nearly two years to the day since she was shot. In 2012, a masked gunman targeted Yousafzai on her school bus in Pakistan. Doctors removed a bullet from her head, and then she was flown the U.K. for more surgery. The teen now lives in Birmingham in the U.K.

Yousafzai had written an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu in 2009, detailing the conditions under Taliban rule in northwest Pakistan. The following year, she was the subject of a New York Times documentary.
In the years since, Yousafzai has been a tireless activist for education. The teen who took on the Taliban addressed the United Nations on her 16th birthday in 2013, around the same time she co-authored a book, titled I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.

Yousafzai's story has gone global. In fact, Reese Witherspoon learned about it from her 15-year-old daughter, Ava Phillippe. "My daughter brought her book to me and said, 'Mom, you've got to hear this woman's story,'" the actress, 38, says in Variety's Oct. 7 issue. "It's so incredible, all she's overcome." In August, Witherspoon and Phillippe hosted a dinner for Yousafzai. "She's an incredible speaker, she has such humor, and she's doing incredible things in the world," she says. "And she's only just begun."

Yousafzai was also named one of Time's most influential people in 2013.

Kailash Satyarthi, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014, has freed tens of thousands of Indian children forced into slavery by businessmen, land-owners and others. Satyarthi, who was trained as an electrical engineer, founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save the Childhood Movement in 1980. Satyarthi, who was trained as an electrical engineer, founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save the Childhood Movement in 1980. Here are images of Satyarthi and his work at Bachpan Bachao Andolan.

TBW felicitates with these two!