LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Syrian young person who spared kindred displaced people from suffocating and after that swam for the outcast 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 service 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 evacuee group at the Games in Brazil.
This week Mardini, who now lives in Germany, told world pioneers at the United Nations summit on transients and evacuees 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 displaced people. It is not a decision to escape your home, and displaced people can accomplish anything."
Rebeca Gyumi, a legal counselor who battles against kid marriage in Tanzania as leader of the Msichana Initiative, was likewise regarded at the honors, curated by the U.N. kids' organization, UNICEF. She won the honor for accomplishing social change for young ladies.
The social undertaking DoctHERS, which conveys human services to powerless young ladies and ladies in Pakistan, won a honor for its crusading work. It matches prepared junior female specialists in Pakistan with country ladies and young ladies by means of telemedicine.
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Gone for arousing support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concurred a year ago to handle destitution and imbalance by 2030, the Global Goals Awards were judged by a board including the 17 SDG advocates who prompt U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
(Detailing by Pietro Lombardi, Editing by Jo Griffin.; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the magnanimous arm of Thomson Reuters, that spreads helpful news, ladies' rights, trafficking, defilement and environmental change. Visit news.trust.org)
Yusra Mardini, 18, who fled Syria with her sister in 2015, got the Girl Award at the service 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 evacuee group at the Games in Brazil.
This week Mardini, who now lives in Germany, told world pioneers at the United Nations summit on transients and evacuees 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 displaced people. It is not a decision to escape your home, and displaced people can accomplish anything."
Rebeca Gyumi, a legal counselor who battles against kid marriage in Tanzania as leader of the Msichana Initiative, was likewise regarded at the honors, curated by the U.N. kids' organization, UNICEF. She won the honor for accomplishing social change for young ladies.
The social undertaking DoctHERS, which conveys human services to powerless young ladies and ladies in Pakistan, won a honor for its crusading work. It matches prepared junior female specialists in Pakistan with country ladies and young ladies by means of telemedicine.
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Serena walks on to fourth round
Gone for arousing support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concurred a year ago to handle destitution and imbalance by 2030, the Global Goals Awards were judged by a board including the 17 SDG advocates who prompt U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
(Detailing by Pietro Lombardi, Editing by Jo Griffin.; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the magnanimous arm of Thomson Reuters, that spreads helpful news, ladies' rights, trafficking, defilement and environmental change. Visit news.trust.org)
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