Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai first came to international attention when she took the brave step of agreeing to blog for the BBC about her life under the Taliban occupation in Pakistan’s Swat valley. On 9 October 2012 a Taliban gunman shot her in the head as she rode a bus home from school. Some groups in Pakistan, however, have accused her of being a puppet of the West and violating the tenets of conservative Islam.Satyarthi, who is credited with saving around 80,000 children from slave labor sometimes in violent confrontations, kept a modest profile in Oslo and even conceded to being overshadowed by Malala surrounded by admirers. Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for refusing to quit school, and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi received their Nobel Peace Prizes on Wednesday after two days of celebration honoring their work for children's rights.
