United by the Nobel Peace Prize for the same struggle: the rights of children. On the left, the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, right, Indian Kailash Satyarthi. She fights for the rights of girls TO EDUCATION, he for the abolition of child labor.
Malala Yousafzai is the youngest winner of a Nobel Prize. At the age of eleven, she said on a blog oppression of the Taliban, in particular against girls, who they prohibit access to school. This struggle, Malala will pay dearly. On 9 October 2012, the Taliban intercept his school bus in his native Swat Valley, and take a bullet in the head, accusing him of undermining Islam. Seriously injured, she managed to survive. She was hospitalized in Birmingham, UK, where she lives today.
Malala becomes an icon, especially in South Asia, where 17.5 million girls aged 5-13 years are out of school. "My message to the world is that it must take this reality seriously, he should never remain silent because these children need our help. If we forget, if we prétextons they are away, we will not be affected by the problem, then it is wrong. Because if we do not stop the war, it will spread. If we do not stop terrorism, it will expand, and it can affect anyone on Earth. ''
At sixty, Kailash Satyarthi has behind him a long struggle against slavery of Indian children in the factories of the country. He asked the UN to include, as a priority, the abolition of the practice. "We have seen an increase in child trafficking in several countries. The docile labor demand and cheap domestic labor, for supply chains, increasing in many areas in the world. And that's why we asked that the abolition of child slavery is an absolute priority. ''
In 1980, Kailash Satyarthi gives up his career as an electrical engineer in the fight against child labor exploitation. In thirty years, the BBA association, '' Save Childhood Movement '', released 80,000 child laborers in India. For centuries, these children had neither voice nor face, the Nobel Prize has finally recognized them.
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