 The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize | ||||
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| Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai | ||||
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| Location | Oslo, Norway | |||
| Presented by | Norwegian Nobel Committee | |||
| Rewards | 8 millionSEK ($1.25M,€0.9M) | |||
| First award | 1901 | |||
| Website | Official website | |||
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The2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, betweenKailash Satyarthi (b. 1954) andMalala Yousafzai[1] (b. 1997) "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".[2]Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win aNobel Prize and the second to win thePeace Prize afterMother Teresa, while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country afterAbdus Salam, the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, and at the age of 17 years, the youngest winner of a Nobel Prize in any field.
In a press release, the Committee indicated that it had chosen the combination of aHindu and aMuslim, and of anIndian and aPakistani, on purpose, because they "join in a common struggle for education and against extremism". They stressed that "fraternity between nations" was one of the original criteria stipulated byAlfred Nobel.[3]
The usage of child labour and discrimination againstfemale education was the citation for the award. As of 2014 it is reckoned 168 million children are used for child labour, 60 million in India alone. This was mentioned by Thorbjørn Jagland in his handover ceremony speech.
The Nobel Prize Committee announced that it had received a record number of 278 different nominations for the Peace Prize, up from 259 in 2013. 47 of these nominations were for organizations.[4]
Prior to the announcement, many news media speculated about who would win this year, providing lists of favourites. Often cited werePope Francis,[5][6][7]Ban Ki-moon,[6]Chelsea Manning,[5]Denis Mukwege,[6][5][7]Edward Snowden,[6][5][7]José Mujica,[6] theNovaya Gazeta newspaper,[6][7] and the so-calledJapanese people who conserve Article 9,[6][7] together with the eventual winner Malala Yousafzai.[5][6][7] The other winner, Kailash Satyarthi, was not among the commonly cited favourites.
