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The Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi have been awarded this Friday with the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 "for his fight against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education", as announced by the Nobel Committee Norwegian. "Children must go to school and not be financially exploited," defended the Nobel Committee, highlighting that "in poor countries, 60% of the current population is under 25 years old." As the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjon Jagland, explained when making the announcement, it was considered "an important point that a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, join together in the common fight for education and against extremism. day only 11 of the 27 students attended class. “My three friends have gone to Peshawar, Lahore and Rawalpindi with their families after the edict.” The anguish that the little girls are experiencing creeps in when she says that a classmate has asked her: “For the love of God, tell me the truth, are the Taliban going to attack our school?” It wasn't an irrational fear. A report published by the Army at that time stated that the Taliban had beheaded 13 girls, destroyed 170 schools and planted bombs in another five.
After highlighting that thanks to the struggle of other people and institutions – there are 78 million fewer children working in the world than in 2000, although there are still 168 million – the Norwegian Special Database Nobel Committee has stressed that "the fight against oppression and for the rights of children and adolescents contributes to the realization of the 'fraternity between nations' that Alfred Nobel mentions in his will as one of the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize. In the case of Satyarthi, he highlighted that "showing great personal courage" and following the tradition of Gandhi, "he has led various forms of protest and demonstration, all peaceful, focusing on the serious exploitation of children for financial gain." Likewise, he "has contributed to the development of important international conventions on the rights of children." Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian computer engineer who abandoned the computer 28 years ago to denounce the multinationals that exploit children between 5 and 12 years of age in his country, heads the organization Global March, which has freed some 80,000 from corporate slavery.
children in more than 160 countries. As for Malala, "despite her youth," she has been fighting for years "for girls' right to education and has shown by her example that children and young people can also contribute to improving their own situations." Furthermore, she has highlighted the Nobel Committee, "she has done it under the most dangerous circumstances." "Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education," she added. Malala, who has just turned 17, achieved notoriety when the Pakistani Army expelled the Taliban from the Swat Valley in 2009. It was then learned that she was the author of a diary in which she recounted what life was like under the control of the Taliban. extremists and which was broadcast on the BBC Urdu website. Under the pseudonym Gul Makai and from the age of 11, Malala had recounted with great candor how restrictions increased until all girls' schools were finally closed. “The Taliban have issued a fatwa prohibiting all girls from going to school,” he wrote in one of the entries.
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发表于 2024-3-12 17:18:12