the most beneficial in the most merciful who is the god of all mankind

when i go and speak

the only problem I face is that the podium is usually taller than me

so I hope it would be good this time

I am feeling honored that

I'm being chosen as a the nobel laureate

and I have been honored with this this precious award

the Nobel Peace Prize and I'm proud that i am the first

Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person

who is getting this award it's a great honor for me

and I'm also really happy that I'm sharing this award with a person

that I'm sharing this award with a person

with a person from India whose name is kailash Satyarthi

and his great work for

child's rights his great work against child slavery

totally inspired me and i'm really happy

that there are so many people who are walking for children's rights

and i am not alone and he totally deserves this award so i'm feeling honored that I'm sharing

this award with him

he received this award and we both

are the two (uhh) nobel award receivers

One is from Pakistan one is from India

One believes in Hinduism and one strongly believes in uh Islam

and it gives a message to people. gives a message to the people of love

between Pakistan and India and between different religions and we both

support each other. it does not matter what's the color of your skin

and what language do you speak. what religion do you believe in

it is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should

respect

each other and we should all fight for our rights

for the rights of children, for the rights of women and for the rights of every

human being

most of all I would like to thank my family

my dear father, my dear mother. for their love for their support

as my father always say he didnt give me something extra

what he did that, he did not clip my wings

so I'm thankful to my father for not clipping my wings,

for letting me to fly and achieve my goal

a girl is not supposed to be the the slave

a girl has the power to go forward in her life. and she's not only a mother

and she isn't only a sister. she's not only a wife

but a girl has the... she should have an identity she should be

recognized and she had equal rights as a boy

even though my brothers think they are treated

that I'm treated very well and they're not treated very well

but that's fine if it comes

if that's it. but that's fine and

well I would like to share with you how I found about the Nobel Peace Prize then

and it's quite exciting because

I was in my chemistry class and we were starting a lot and actually see it

...

at the time was i thinkin 10:15 so the time of the announcement of the Nobel Peace

Prize was gone

and before that i was not expecting that I'll get this award

and I'll when it went to like 10:15

i was totally sure that I haven't won it but then suddenly one of my teacher came into the

class and

she called me. she said "I have something important to tell you"

and i was totally surprised when she told me that congratulations

you have won the Nobel Peace Prize and you are sharing it with

a great person who is also working for children's rights and

it's sometimes quite difficult to express your feelings but I felt

really honored, i felt more powerful and more courageous

because this award is not just a piece of metal or a medal that you will wear or an

award that would keep in your room but

this is really an encouragement for me to go forward

and to believe in myself to know that there are people who are supporting me

in this campaign

and we are standing together and we all

want to make sure that every child gets quality education

so this really. this is really something

something great for me. however,

when I found out that I have won the Nobel Peace Prize

I decided that I would not leave my school

rather I'd finish my school time. I went to the physics lesson

I learned. I went in the English lesson and it was totally like a

I considered it as a normal day. and I was really happy by the response of my teachers then

my fellow students. they were all saying that we are proud of you and

I am really thankful to my school. to my teachers, to my school fellows for

their love for their support and

really encourage me in there supporting me so I'm really happy

even though it's not going to help me in my test in exams because it

totally depends on my hard work

but still I'm really happy. that they are supporting me

I've got. I've received this award

but this is not the end. this is not the end of

this campaign which I have started I think this is really the beginning

and I want to see every child going to school. there are still fifty million

children who have not

received education who are still out of the primary schools and I want to see

every child going to school and getting education

because I have myself suffered the same situation when I was in Swat valley

and you all may know that

In Swat there was Talibanisation and because of them nobody was allowed to

go to school

at that time I stood up for my rights and said that I will speak up

I did not wait for someone else. I did not wait for someone else

I had really 2 options. one was

not to speak and wait to be killed second was and the second was

to speak up and then be killed and i choose the second one

because at that time there was terrorism women were not allowed to go outside

of their houses cause education was totally banned

people were killed. at that time I needed to raise my voice

because I wanted to go back to school. I was also one of those girls who couldn't

not get education

I wanted to learn

I wanted to learn and be who I can be my future

and I also had dreams like a normal child has

I wanted to become a doctor at that time now I want to become a politician

a good politician and

when I heard that I can't go to school. I just..for a second thought that I will

never be able to become

a doctor. and I will never able to be

who I want to be in future. and my life will be just getting married at the age

of 13 or 14

not going to school. not becoming who I really can be

so I decided that I will speak up. through my story

I want to tell other children all around the world that they should stand up for their

rights

they should not break for someone else and their voices

are more powerful their voices it would seem

they are weak but at the time when no one speak your voice gets so loud and

everyone has to listen to it everyone has to hear it. so it's my message to

children all around the world that they should stand up for their rights

and the award that I have received

the Nobel Peace Prize. I believe that the Nobel Committee

they haven't given it just to me but this award is for all those children

who are voiceless whose voices need to be hard

and I speak for them and I stand up with them

and i join them in their campaign that their voices should be heard

and they should be listened and they have rights

they have the right to receive the right to

receive quality education. they have the right

not to suffer from Child labor. not to suffer from child trafficking

they have the right to live a happy life. so i stand up with

all those children and this award is especially for them

it gives them courage

at the end, I'd like to share with you that I had a phone call

with honorable Kailash I can't pronounce

his surname like accurately so I'm

so please I just ask for forgiveness. I'll just call him Kailash

if he wouldn't mind. so I had a phone call with him right now

and we both talked that how important it is that every child goes to

school in every child gets quality education

and how many issues are there that the children are suffering but are not yet

highlighted

so we both decided that we will walk together

for this goal. that every child get quality education

and do not suffer from these issues other than that

we also decided as he's from India and I am from Pakistan

we'll try to build strong relationships between India and Pakistan

and nowadays you know that there is tension on the border and

and the situation is getting. it's not like

as we are expecting we want Pakistan and India to have good relationships

and the tension that is going on is really disappointing and I am really sad because

I want both the countries to have dialogue to have

talks about peace and to think about progress to think about development

rather than fighting with each other it's important that both the countries

focus more on education focus more on development and progress

which is good for both of them. So we both decided that

I requested him that. would it be possible that he

request his honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi

to join us here when we receive the Nobel Peace Prize in December

and I promised that I will also request the honorable Prime Minister of

Pakistan

Nawaz Sherif to join us when I and he get the Nobel Peace Prize

and I myself request the honorable

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the honorable prime minister Nawaz Sherif

that they both join us when we receive the Nobel Peace Prize I really believe in peace

i really believe in tolerance and patience and it is very important for the

progress of both countries

that they have peace and they have good relationships. this is how they are going

to achieve

success and this

is how to. they're going to progress. so it's my humble request and I

hope it will be

heard it will be listened. at the end I want to say that I'm really happy for

your support

I used to say that I think I do not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

I still believe that but I believe that

it is not only an award for what I've done but it is also encouragement

For giving me hope for giving me the courage

to go and continue this campaign to believe in myself and to know that

I'm not alone. there are hundreds and thousands and millions who are supporting

me

so once again thank you so much to all of you thank you.