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2. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaignershot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014Nobel peace prize. 3. Kailash Satyarthi (born on January 11, 1954) is a humanrights activist from India who has been at the forefront ofthe global movement to end child slavery and exploitativechild labor since 1980 when he gave up a lucrative career asan Electrical Engineer for initiating crusade against ChildServitude. As a grassroots activist, he has led the rescue ofover 78,500 child slaves and developed a successful modelfor their education and rehabilitation. As a worldwidecampaigner, he has been the architect of the single largestcivil society network for the most exploited children,the Global March Against Child Labor,which is a worldwidecoalition of NGOs, Teachers' Union and Trade Unions.