Malala Yousafzai Nominated For 2014 Children's Nobel Prize

Malala Yousafzai, the valiant young warrior for the right to education in Pakistan, has been nominated for the 2014 Children's Nobel Prize for her "courageous and dangerous fight for girls' right to education", the World's Children's Prize website said. The Swedish based foundation recognizes children's champions who inspire children throughout the world because of their outstanding work for children whose rights have been violated.

The World's Children's Prize Child Jury, comprising around 15 children from across the globe, selects three final candidates for the award every year. The award programme, launched in 2000, is supported by 60,000 schools with 29.3 million students in 109 countries and over 600 organizations.

The other two nominees for the prestigious prize are the John Wood from the United States of America for his outstanding contribution for libraries and education access to millions of Children in 10 countries and the other is Indira Ranamagar, a Nepali child rights activist, who has been actively involving for prisoners' children in Nepal for the past 20-years.

The 16-year-old activist Malala, who survived a brutal Taliban attack in 2012 and last year's Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, started to speak out for girls' rights at the age of 11, when the Taliban banned girls from going to school in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan, the website stated. The website goes on to say that Malala is determined to continue her struggle for every child's right to an education. "She believes that education is the future, and that one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world".