2014 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 10 October 2014.

The citation

The citation reads: "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". They share the prize equally.

The laureates

Kailash Satyarthi was born in 1954 in Vidisha, India. Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan.

Why it matters

Satyarthi, from India, has campaigned against child labour for decades. Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012 and was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she now lives, is at 17 the youngest ever Nobel laureate.

The prize

The prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor, divided between the laureates. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.