Malala Yousafzai won
the International Children’s Peace Prize 2013. She will receive the award from 2011
Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights campaigner Tawakkol Karman at a
ceremony in The Hague on 6 September 2013 . The peace prize
carries a cash value of 100000 euros (133000 US dollars) which is invested in
projects relating to the winner's cause. Malala campaigned for girls' right to
education.
The International Children's Peace Prize is an initiative of
the Amsterdam based Dutch Kids
Rights Foundation. It was launched in the year 2005 by former Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev, when he chaired the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome .
Since then, the prize has been awarded every year by a Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate.
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