OSLO: Malala Yousufzai, the youngest Nobel Prize winner, has donated to the Nobel Peace Centre the blood-stained school uniform she was wearing the day she was attacked by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in the Mingora town of Swat valley in October 2012.
According to a press release issued by the Nobel Peace Centre, the uniform will be displayed at the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition 2014 in Oslo, Norway.
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Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai were announced as the winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education. The Nobel Peace award will be conferred upon them on December 10.
“My school uniform is very important to me because when I was going to school I would wear it," 17-year-old Malala said in an interview conducted for the exhibition.
"The day I was attacked I was wearing this uniform. I was fighting for my right to go to school, I was fighting for my right to get education. Wearing a uniform made me feel that yes, I am a student, I am doing it, practically. It is an important part of my life, now I want to show it to children, to people all around the world. This is my right, it is the right of every child, to go to school. This should not be neglected.”
The making of the official Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition is an annual production that spans a mere eight weeks, from the announcement in October to the Nobel Days in December. This is the tenth consecutive Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, filling the entire first level of the museum in Oslo, Norway.
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The two Nobel Peace Prize laureates open the exhibition Thursday, 11 December. It opens to the public the next day, Friday 12 December at noon.
The Nobel Peace Center then continues the celebrations, and offer free entry for all throughout the year.
Malala was attacked in 2012 on a school bus in Swat Valley by masked gunmen as a punishment for a blog that she wrote for the BBC’s Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban’s efforts to deny women an education.
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Unable to return to Pakistan after her recovery, she moved to England, setting up the Malala Fund and supporting local education advocacy groups with a focus on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya.