Queen Silvia delivered the World's Children's Prize Decade Child Rights Hero at Gripsholm Castle. Yanga Sobetwa, music artist from South Africa, was appointed World's Children's Prize Patron.
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Today we reveal that in a global vote, millions of children have chosen Malala Yousafzai Malik as their World’s Children’s Prize Decade Child Rights Hero for her fight for the right of all girls to an education and freedom.
“I was honoured to receive the World’s Children’s Prize in 2014, and then today to have this title as Decade Child Rights Hero added is a huge honour. I hope that it will give me more motivation to continue my activism for girls’ education. I have this mission to see all girls receiving safe, quality and free education. Right now all over the world there are 127 million girls who don’t have access to school. These girls have dreams, just like us,” said Malala.
The presentation of the Decade Child Rights Hero award at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden, has been delayed for two years due to the many school closures around the world during the pandemic. The ceremony was led by children from 12 countries, all of whom have experienced violations of their rights, including trafficking, child marriage and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. They were assisted during the ceremony by Sweden’s Queen Silvia.
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The World's Children's Prize program (WCP) is the world's largest annual education initiative that empowers children to change as changemakers for everyone's equal value, children's rights, democracy, and sustainable development. Since 2000, 45 million children have participated.
Patrons of the WCP include Malala Yousafzai, the late Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, the late Desmond Tutu, Queen Silvia and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
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The Queen participated in the World's Children's Prize award ceremony, where Malala Yousafzai Malik was named Decade Child Rights Hero.
The Queen also presented awards to representatives of the following organizations:
Shamwari Ye Mwanasikana, SYS, in Zimbabwe, who fights for girls' rights
SANTAC in Mozambique working against human trafficking in southern Africa
Peace Park Foundation and the African Wildlife Fund, which works against poaching in southern Africa and collaborates with the World's Children's Prize to educate children, who grow up in areas around national parks in southern Africa, about child rights, animal welfare and climate change.
South African singer Yanga Sobetwa was named the World's Children's Prize patron with a special mission to represent girls and their rights.
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