Children’s rights activists Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi from India are the 2014 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The announcement was made in Oslo by Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

They shared the prize for “their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education,” the committee said.

Malala Yousafzai is 17 years old and is the youngest winner of the prize. She has been fighting for years for the right of girls to get an education. On October 9, 2012, she was critically injured when a gunman shot her in the head while she was riding home on a school bus in the city of Mingora.

She was hospitalized for three months in UK and now she lives there with her family. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, while they still threaten to kill her if she returns home.

Kailash Satyarthi in maintaining the traditions of Mahatma Gandhi has “headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain,” the Nobel committee said.

He has headed various forms of peaceful protests and demonstrations, focusing on the exploitation of children for financial gain and he has saved about 80,000 children from various forms of slavery.

The winners were selected from a list of 278 nominees.