Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize

Combination picture of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners, Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi (L) at his office in New Delhi October 10, 2014, and Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations in the Manhattan borough of New York in a file picture taken August 18, 2014.

Born:11 January 1954 (age 60)Vidisha, Madhya Bharat, India - now Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaNationality:IndianEducation:EngineeringOccupation:Activist for children's rights and children's educationKnown for: ActivismReligion Hindu[1]Awards:Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights AwardMedal of the Italian SenateAlfonso Comin International AwardInternational Peace Prize, GermanyDefenders of Democracy Award2014 Nobel Peace Prize[2]

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of 80,000 children. 

Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he speaks with the media at his office in New Delhi October 10, 2014. Satyarthi and Pakistani teenager Malala won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. 

Born: July 12, 1997 (age 17), Mingora, Pakistan

Education: Edgbaston High School

Books: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Parents: Tor Pekai Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai

Awards: Sakharov Prize, National Malala Peace Prize, more

Nominations: Nobel Peace Prize, International Children's Peace Prize

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, who became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, waves after speaking at Birmingham library in Birmingham, central England October 10, 2014. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labour Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Nobel peace prize winners: award is a boost for children’s rights worldwide

The winners of the Nobel peace prize, the Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights advocate, said the award represented a huge boost to the cause of children’s rights around the world.