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Nobel Peace Prize winners urge nations to educate children across borders and religions

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    Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, arrives for a press conference with Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Torbjorn Jagland. left, on Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (The Associated Press)

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    Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (The Associated Press)

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    Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, foreground right, and Kailash Satyarthi, left, are ushered into a press conference by Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Torbjorn Jagland, 2nd left, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (The Associated Press)

OSLO, Norway – Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India have stressed the importance of uniting people across borders and religions by educating children and freeing them from poverty.

The 17-year-old Malala, who was shot in the head two years ago for insisting that girls have as much right to education as boys, says it is "not only the right but the duty of children" to be educated.

Sitting side-by-side with Malala, the 60-year-old Satyarthi said that even if a single child is denied education "we cannot say we are enlightened."

The Nobel Peace Prize winners were speaking to reporters in the Norwegian capital a day before being presented their awards on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.