Malala Yousafzai accepts Nobel peace prize with attack on arms spending Pakistani education activist was jointly awarded prize with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi
Malala, now 17, became the youngest winner of the prize after the Nobel committee acknowledged her “heroic struggle” for girls’ right to an education. She was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 after drawing attention to her own plight and the plight of girls like her, to get an education. She was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, where she was treated for life-threatening injuries.