Malala Yousafzai has made a plea for equal rights after receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
The education campaigner revealed she learnt she had won the international accolade during a science lesson at her Birmingham high school.
Speaking this afternoon, the 17-year-old said: "I'm proud I'm the first Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person who is getting this award. It's a great honour for me.
"I'm also really happy that I'm sharing this award with a person from India, whose name is Kailash Satyarthi. His great work for child's rights and against child slavery totally inspires me.
"I'm really happy there are so many people working for children's rights and I'm not alone. He totally deserves this award and I'm really honoured that I'm sharing this award with him.
"We are the two Nobel award receivers - one is from Pakistan, one is from India. One believes in Hinduism, one strongly believes in Islam.
"It is a message to people. A message to people of love between Pakistan and India and between different religions. And we both support each other. It does not matter the colour of your skin, what language you speak, what religion you believe in.
"It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and respect each other. We should all fight for our rights, for the rights of women, for the rights of children, for the rights of every human being.
"First of all I would like to thank my family, my dear father and my dear mother, for their love and support. As my father always said, he did not give me something extra but he did not clip my wings.
"I'm thankful to my father for not clipping my wings, for letting me fly and achieve my goals. For showing to the world that a girl is not supposed to be the slave. A girl has the power to go forward in her life.
"She's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife, but she should have an identity, she has equal rights and she should be recognised as a voice. Even though my brother thinks I'm treated very well and they're not treated very well but that's fine."
