--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Malala Yousafzai Wins the Nobel image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt664b617a91eaa956/698768133c163915c544fe2e/9-malala.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Dec 02, 2014 # Malala Yousafzai Wins the Nobel by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Malala Yousafzai in Birmingham, England on Oct. 10, 2014. Malala Yousafzai in Birmingham, England on Oct. 10, 2014.Oli Scarff—AFP/Getty Images When Malala Yousafzai shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in October, it was a watershed moment for women and girls everywhere. The Pakistani crusader for women’s education survived a horrifying assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012 to become one of the world’s most powerful advocates for women’s equality and equal access to education. At 17, she’s the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize, but she knows her work isn’t done. “This is not the end of the campaign I have started,” she said in her acceptance speech. “This is really the beginning.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3595375/malala-yousafzai-wins-the-nobel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3595375/malala-yousafzai-wins-the-nobel/"},"headline":"Malala Yousafzai Wins the Nobel","datePublished":"2014-12-02T21:07:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:04:42.932Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3595375/malala-yousafzai-wins-the-nobel/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt664b617a91eaa956/698768133c163915c544fe2e/9-malala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt664b617a91eaa956/698768133c163915c544fe2e/9-malala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3595375/malala-yousafzai-wins-the-nobel/","name":"Malala Yousafzai Wins the Nobel"}}]}] ```