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2014两大诺贝尔和平奖得主呼吁关注儿童权利

The Indian and Pakistani winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize have called on political and religious leaders to make children’s rights a priority, and to improve the lives of millions of children of poverty, child labor and lack of education.

Seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan was nearly killed by the Taliban two years ago for her advocacy for girls’ education. Sixty-year-old Kailash Satyarthi of India founded a charity that frees child laborers and provides them with training and education.

Satyarthi’s charity operates in 144 countries and has rescued thousands of children, many of them in his home country, India. He said the Nobel Peace Prize has already brought welcome attention on the difficulty of poor, uneducated and enslaved children worldwide.

An alleged Taliban militant shot Malala Yousafzai in the head, but she survived. “There are so many countries where children are not asking for any iPad or computer or anything else," she said. "What they are asking for is just a book and just a pen. So why can’t we do that? Why can’t we just give a book and a pen? Why can’t we just give a school to children, which can really change their future, really change their world?”

Much has been made of the fact that the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to an Indian and a Pakistani, a Hindu and a Muslim. On Tuesday, Satyarthi said he considered Malala his daughter. And Malala said just because India and Pakistan had a border between them, they didn’t have to hate each other.