Malala Yousafzai has been chosen for Mexico’s 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non Discrimination. According to an official statement, the award seeks to recognize Malala's efforts for "the protection of human rights" and especially her fight to protect the right to education without discrimination on "grounds of age, gender, sex and religion".The award comes close to the EU’s Sakhrov human rights prize which she received on World Children’s Day.