Saturday 21 January 2017

Syrian teenager honoured for aiding women and girls' rights

LONDON - A Syrian young person who spared kindred exiles from suffocating and after that swam for the evacuee group at the Rio Olympics was among those respected at the inaugural Global Goals Awards in New York.

Yusra Mardini, 18, who fled Syria with her sister in 2015, got the Girl Award at the function on Tuesday night regarding champions for ladies' and young ladies' rights around the world.

Mardini, who needed to swim for her life when her over-burden vessel separated in the Mediterranean while in transit to Europe, caught features when she vied for the 10-in number exile group at the Games in Brazil.

This week Mardini, who now lives in Germany, told world pioneers at the United Nations summit on vagrants and outcasts that she needed to change view of those dislodged from their homes.

"This experience (the Olympics) has likewise given me a voice," she said. "I need to change view of exiles. It is not a decision to escape your home, and evacuees can accomplish anything."

Rebeca Gyumi, a legal counselor who battles against tyke marriage in Tanzania as leader of the Msichana Initiative, was likewise respected at the honors, curated by the UN kids' office, UNICEF. She won the honor for accomplishing social change for young ladies.

The social endeavor DoctHERS, which conveys medicinal services to defenseless young ladies and ladies in Pakistan, won a honor for its crusading work. It matches prepared junior female specialists in Pakistan with rustic ladies and young ladies by means of telemedicine.

Gone for reviving backing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concurred a year ago to handle neediness and disparity by 2030, the Global Goals Awards were judged by a board including the 17 SDG advocates who prompt UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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