Question: The International Children’s Peace Prize 2015 awarded to citizens of which country?
(a) India
(b) Sudan
(c) Liberia
(d) Ethiopia
Ans(c)
Related facts:
- On November 9, 2015, the Liberian child rights activist M. Abraham Keita was awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize for the year 2015.
- Abraham M. Keita received the prize from Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee at function held at the Hague, in the Netherlands,
- The 17-year-old was presented with the award for demanding justice for child victims of violence and for successfully campaigning for the Liberian parliament to adopt the children’s law.
- He is the first person from Liberia to have been awarded this prize.
- The prize was launched by KidsRights foundation during the 2005 Nobel Peace Laureates.
- The prize has been presented every year by a Nobel Peace Laureate.
- The winner receives the statuette ‘Nkosi’, which shows how a child sets the world in motion and a project fund of €100,000
- This fund is invested by KidsRights foundation in projects that are closely connected to the winners’ area of work in the country of the winner.
- This award is given to an exceptional child, whose courageous and remarkable actions helps in improving the rights of children around the world.
- In 2014 the prize was awarded to the Indian-American Neha Gupta.
Reference:
http://www.childrenspeaceprize.org/