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European Union

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Jimmy Carter (2002)

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Woman and Children rights

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UNICEF

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Kim Dae-Jung(2000)

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Women's rights

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international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

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International Labor Organization (ILO)

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Barack Obama

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Democracy Nobel Peace prize 2009 Barack Obama 

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Effects of Global development United States of America
Great Recension

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Liu Xiaobo
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ICAN

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

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Malala Yousafzai

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It has been a busy few days for Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and advocate for education who was shot in the head by the Taliban. Recently she was honoured with a number of important prizes - the EU's Sakharov human rights prize, the Amnesty International Ambassador of Consciousness award, the Anna Politkovskaya award and the Pride of Britain award. The last one was handed to her by none other than David Beckham. But more then any other, she is being billed as a contender for this year's Nobel peace prize.

Her message of compulsory education for all children is a vital one in her homeland Pakistan, a country with the second-highest number of children not in school. The Taliban, despite their stone-age mentality, are not the ones to blame for this disturbing statistic. If anything, they are partly the products of this failure of policy. Widespread illiteracy was a problem well before the US and Pakistan supported the mujahideen back in the 80s, in order to drive the Soviet invaders out of Afghanistan.

Instead the blame lies largely with successive governments in Pakistan, which have neglected education and created the phenomenon of the " ghost school", a school that exists only on paper. The reality is that even in parts of the country with little or no Taliban presence there are still children not attending school. Instead, many are employed in child labour or begging on the streets. There is limited scope for success in combating militancy if Pakistan's failing education system is not corrected.

As for the Nobel peace prize, the fact that it was given to Barack Obama a few years back raises some disturbing questions about the nature of the award, given his escalation of drone warfare in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, where victims have included children.

This is a prize as notable for those who have been left out as have won it. One epic miss that undermines the credibility of the Nobel peace prize to this day was the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. In more recent times, the aged Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance service and is credited with saving thousands of lives through his efforts, has been ignored. While some have compared him to Mother Teresa, many Pakistanis would insist Edhi is an even greater force for good, given the scale of the operations carried out by the foundation he created.

Yet in the west he still remains a relative unknown. Perhaps because a man who has a long white beard and saves lives without discriminating on the basis of religion doesn't quite fit preconceived ideas of Muslims at this moment in history. On the other hand, a young girl, one who was the subject of a barbaric attack by the Taliban, fits in very easily with western stereotypes of widespread misogyny and oppression in Muslim society. Malala's story is easier for the western mind to process based on what the media has been reporting over the years.

For many people, particularly in parts of the global south, the Nobel peace prize has come to be seen as a controversial win, associated as it is with particular ideological preferences. Some have raised the question of the ethical considerations of awarding the prize to a girl of Malala's age. I would instead argue that, given the dubious reputation of some of its past recipients, the Nobel peace prize would be beneath Malala, given her selfless sacrifice and efforts in the cause of education.

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Malala Yousafzai is too good for the Nobel peace prize | Syed Hamad Ali

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It has been a busy few days for Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and advocate for education who was shot in the head by the Taliban. Recently she was honoured with a number of important prizes - the EU's Sakharov human rights prize, the Amnesty International Ambassador of Consciousness award, the Anna Politkovskaya award and the Pride of Britain award.