DHAKA: Pakistan’s teenage activist Malala Yousafzai was Wednesday handed the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.

To thunderous applause announcing the European Parliament prize, the assembly’s president Martin Schulz praised the 16-year-old’s crusade for all children’s right to an education.

It said, ‘You have given hope to millions of people’, reports daily Hurriyet.

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