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Time’s Person of the Year for 2017
December 8 , 2017
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- Time magazine has named "the Silence Breakers" as its "Person of the Year"
- It was referring to those individuals, mostly women, who came forward this year with #MeToo movement to publicly expose patterns of sexual harassment and assault by powerful public figures in United States
- #MeToo was actually founded by activist Tarana Burke a decade ago to raise awareness about sexual violence.
- The two runners-up for Time person of the year were Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump.
- The Person of the Year is an annual honour bestowed by the Times magazine. It was started in 1927 and it is announced in month of December every year.
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