Malala Yousafzai
b. 1997 · Pakistan · Peace, Literature
Nobel Peace Prize, 2014
Shot for going to school; now the youngest Nobel laureate in history.
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- Tawakkol Karman
1979 · Peace
Karman's Arab Spring laureateship modelled youth-led rights campaigning for Malala's generation.
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