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Malala receives Liberty Medal in the US

2014-10-22 215 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT, NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, is awarded the Liberty Medal in the U.S..<br/> <br />The 17-year-old renewed calls for universal education and world peace.<br/> <br />She says her prize money of $100,000 will go to the youth in need in Pakistan.<br/> <br />Yousafzai was attacked in 2012 on a school bus in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan by masked gunmen as a punishment for a blog that she started writing for the BBC's Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban's efforts to deny women an education.<br/> <br />The Constitution Center in Philadelphia says it awarded the medal to the teenager for her resilience in overcoming adversity.<br/> <br />Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was the recipient of last year's medal.

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