Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace for the year 2014?

Barack Obama
Ban Ki Moon
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi
European Union

The correct answer is: C. Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai’s advocacy has since grown into an international movement. In 2014, at the age of 17, she was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social activist who has campaigned for the rights of children. He is the founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), an NGO that works to combat child labor. Satyarthi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States. He served from 2009 to 2017. Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Ban Ki-moon was the 8th secretary-general of the United Nations. He served from 2007 to 2016. Ban is a South Korean diplomat. He is a member of the Democratic Party of Korea.

The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental-negotiated decisions by the member states. It aims to bring about the coordination of member states’ economic policies, a single market in which goods and people move freely, and common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development.