Malala Yousafzai has received the EU's Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg.
The European Parliament President, Martin Schulz, presented the award to the 16-year-old activist who was shot a year ago by the Taliban for campaigning for better rights for girls in Pakistan.
Malala was also one of the nominees for the Nobel Prize this year.
More than 20 former laureates are attending the ceremony‚ the parliament's press service says.
The Sakharov Prize for free speech is awarded by the European Parliament annually in memory of Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
The 50‚000 euro ($65‚000) prize is considered Europe's top human rights award.
She lived in Pakistan's mountainous Swat Valley and her name became internationally known after the Pakistan army pushed the Taliban out of the area in 2009.
She joins a distinguished list of winners of the Sakharov Prize which includes South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma‚ also known as Myanmar.