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UN human rights prize 2018
October 29 , 2018
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- The United Nations has announced the winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights 2018.
- It was announced by Maria Espinosa, UN General Assembly President.
- The awardees would be conferred in this year’s award ceremony which will be held in UN Headquarters in New York, USA on Human Rights Day on December 10, 2018.
- The winners of 2018 award are:
- Asma Jahangir – Pakistan’s late human rights activist
- Rebeca Gyumi – A Tanzanian human rights activist
- Joenia Wapichana – Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer
- Front Line Defenders – A human rights organisation of Ireland
2018 Winners Background
- Asma Jahangir was the first woman to serve as the president of the Supreme Court Bar association of Pakistan.
- She is the 4th Pakistani woman to receive this prestigious award.
- Gyumi won the UNICEF Global Goals award in 2016 and was named the Woman of the Year by New African Women Magazine.
- Wapichana became the 1st indigenous woman to be elected to the Congress in Brazil.
- Front Line Defenders is an Ireland-based charity that was founded in Ireland’s Dublin in 2001.
UN Human Rights Prize
- These awards were instituted by the General Assembly of United Nations in 1966
- The first awards were given in 1968 and are given every five years since then.
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