After becoming the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai urged children to “stand up for their rights”.

Malala dedicating the award to “all those children who are voiceless”, she said: “My message to children around the world is; stand up for your rights and that she was “honoured” to receive the award, saying it made her feel “more powerful and courageous”.

She also said she was “really happy to be sharing this award with a person from India”, before joking that she couldn’t pronounce Mr Satyarthi’s surname.

She said she and Mr Satyarthi had decided to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to the award ceremony in December in Oslo in a bid to improve relations between the two.

She went further to thank her father for “not clipping her wings” and said she was proud to have shown that “a girl is not supposed to be a slave”.

She will receive a medal and $1.4m (£860,000) pounds in prize money.

Speaking at a news conference in Birmingham, UK, where she now lives, she revealed she found out the news after being called out of her chemistry class at school. Despite her excitement, she said she attended her afternoon lessons in physics and English.