Daniel Alonso Rodriguez is a human rights activist in Mexico , who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 . At that time , he was only nineteen years old ( same age as Malala Yousafzai when she won ) , and a law student at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies , Hidalgo campus . His nomination was made by one of his professors , Juan Gabriel Zamora Jimenez , for his unusual sensitivity and dedication to human rights . In March 2017 Rodriguez received a letter from the Nobel committee that his nomination had been accepted , along with those of 317 other candidates . He is one of the youngest ever to be nominated
Nobel Peace Prize
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Daniel Alonso Rodríguez