The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child
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The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child is a prize founded by the Swedish organization Children's World and has support from the Swedish government as well as several humanitarian organizations. It actually concists of three different prizes: The World's Children's Prize, The Global Friends' Award and The World's Children's Honorary Award. The World's Children's Prize is decided by a jury of children from all over the world, each representing a group if the world's children. The Global Friends' Award is decided by children in schools and organizations all over the world that take place in a global vote. In 2004, 1.3 million children voted. For them it was a chance to learn about the right's of the child and also a lesson in democracy.
The price ceremony takes place in April each year since 2000, but there was no global vote in the first year. Three nominees for the prizes are selected each year.
The patron of the prize is Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, and an honorary committee of "adult friends", for example Nelson Mandela, East Timor's president Xanana Gusmão and the Swedish prime minister Göran Persson.
Laureates
(It is possible for one nominee to reveive both The World's Children's Prize and The Global Friends' Award since the child jury and the children participating in the global vote are unaware of eachother's decisions.)
- 2004
- Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thailand - The World's Children's Prize & The Global Friends' Award
- Paul and Mercy Baskar, India - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- Liz Gaynes and Emani Davis, USA - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- 2003
- James Aguer Alic, Sudan - The Global Friends' Award
- Maggy Barankitse, Burundi - The World's Children's Prize
- Pastoral da Crianças volunteers, Brazil - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- 2002 (The Jury chose to split the World's Children's Prize)
- Nkosi Johnson (posthumously), South Africa - The World's Children's Prize & The Global Friends' Award
- Maiti Nepal, Nepal - The World's Children's Prize
- Casa Alianza, Central America - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- 2001
- Asfaw Yemiru, Ethiopia - The World's Children's Prize & The Global Friends' Award
- Barefoot School & Children's Parliament, India - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- The Children's Peace Movement, Colombia - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- 2000
- Iqbal Masih (posthumously), Pakistan - The World's Children's Prize
- Hector Pieterson (posthumously), South Africa - The World's Children's Honorary Award
- Anne Frank (posthumously) - The World's Children's Honorary Award
External links
- www.childrensworld.org
- Press release 2004 (http://www.childrensworld.org/wcpswe/press/engelska/vinnare2004.asp)