Malala says honoured to win Nobel peace prize

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Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls´ right to education, said she was honoured to have been chosen as joint winner of the Nobel Prize on Friday.

“I´m feeling honoured that I´m being chosen as a Nobel Laureate,” she said, speaking from Birmingham, England where she is now based. “I´m proud that I´m the first Pakistani and first young woman, or the first young person, who is getting this award.”

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to 17-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi for their work promoting children’s rights on Friday.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize saying that peaceful global development can only come about if children and the young are respected.

Malala is the youngest person to be awarded the globally prestigious annual prize.