MANILA (PHILIPPINES): Afghanistan's first and only female governor and a humanitarian worker from Myanmar's Kachin minority are among this year's recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize.
Habiba Sarabi, 57, was chosen for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and women's rights in Afghanistan's Bamyan province despite working in a violent and impoverished environment, the foundation said. Public education and the ratio of female students
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Magsaysay-for-first-Afghanistans-woman-governor/articleshow/21320934.cms
Habiba Sarabi, 57, was chosen for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and women's rights in Afghanistan's Bamyan province despite working in a violent and impoverished environment, the foundation said. Public education and the ratio of female students
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Magsaysay-for-first-Afghanistans-woman-governor/articleshow/21320934.cms
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