노벨평화상에 파키스탄 마랄라, 인도 카일라쉬 사티아르티 수상 Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize VIDEO
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai were recognised for their efforts to improve child rights
Kailash Satyarthi, seen here making a film in 1996, has fought for the rights of child labourers
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노르웨이의 노벨상위원회는 이들이 모든 어린이들의 교육을 받을 권리와 어린이와 젊은이들에
대한 탄압에 맞서 싸운 공로로 수상자로 선정했다고 밝혔다.
[마랄라 유사프자이 Malala Yousafzai,1997~ ]
파키스탄 여성운동가
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1997년 7월 12일 파키스탄에서 태어났다. 2009년 11세에 파키스탄 북부 스와트 계곡에서 일어나는 탈레반의 여성교육 탄압을 영국 BBC 방송 홈페이지에 남겨 국제적인 주목을 받았으며, 이후 계속적인 탈레반의 위협에도 굴하지 않고 여성교육권을 주장하였다. 2012년 10월 9일 마랄라는 밍고라 마을의 쿠샬 여자고등학교 스쿨버스로 하교하던 중 탈레반 대원이 쏜 총에 두개골을 맞아 중태에 빠졌다. 현지에서 수술을 받은 마랄라는 15일 영국 버밍엄 엘리자베스 병원으로 후송되어 치료를 받았다. 한편 마랄라의 저항정신을 이어가기 위해 '나는 마랄라다(I am Malala)' 캠페인이 조성되었다. 영국 전 총리 고든 브라운은 '나는 마랄라다' 홈페이지에 남긴 청원 글을 모아 파키스탄 대통령에게 전하겠다고 밝혔으며, 팝가수 마돈나는 공연 중 퍼포먼스를 통해 마랄라 사태를 고발하는 등 캠페인이 전 세계적으로 확산되었다. 그리고 2012년 12월 25일 CNN이 홈페이지를 통해 발표한 '올해의 흥미로운 인물' 2위에 오르기도 하였다. 1위는 오바마 미국 대통령이었다. |
[카일라쉬 사티아르티 Kailash Satyarthi,1954~ ]
인도 시민운동가
인도 남아시아 아동노동 반대연대 (SACCS)
아동 노동 근절 및 교육권 보장 운동가
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Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize.
At the age of just 17, Malala is the youngest ever recipient of the prize.
The teenager was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls' education. She now lives in Birmingham in the UK.
The Nobel committee praised the pair's "struggle against the suppression of children and young people".
Mr Satyarthi has maintained the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and headed various forms of peaceful protests, "focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain," the committee said at the announcement in Oslo.
The 60-year-old founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or the Save the Childhood Movement, which campaigns for child rights and an end to human trafficking.
Reacting to the news, Mr Satyarthi told the BBC: "It's a great honour for all the Indians, it's an honour for all those children who have been still living in slavery despite of all the advancement in technology, market and economy.
"And I dedicate this award to all those children in the world."
Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, paid tribute to Malala's achievements.
"Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai, has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations," he said.
"This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education."
The committee said it was important that a Muslim and a Hindu, a Pakistani and an Indian, had joined in what it called a common struggle for education and against extremism.
Malala first came to attention in 2009 after she wrote an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu about life under Taliban rule in north-west Pakistan.
She was shot when gunmen boarded her school bus in the Swat Valley.
She has since recovered from the attack and has remained in the public eye, publishing an autobiography and addressing the UN General Assembly.
Schoolgirls in Islamabad say they "are so very proud" of Malala Yousafzai
"Her achievement is unparalleled and unequalled. Girls and boys of the world should take the lead from her struggle and commitment," he said in a statement.
Malala was named one of Time magazine's most influential people in 2013, and awarded the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize that year.
She had been hotly tipped to win last year's Nobel Peace Prize. Her win in 2014 takes the number of women awarded the prize to 16 out of 95.
This year's record number of 278 Nobel Peace Prize nominees included Pope Francis and Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, although the full list was kept a secret.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta had also been tipped as favourites for the award. BBC News |
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