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UN Human Rights Prize 2018
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- Recently, UNannounced Rights Prize winners for 2018.
- Asma Jahangir, Rebeca Gyumi, JoeniaWapichana and Front Line Defenders are honoured by the UN for promoting human rights.
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- The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is an honorary award given for outstanding achievement in human rights.
- Prize was established by the UN General Assembly in 1966 and was awarded for the first time on December 10, 1968, on the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- The Prize is an opportunity not only to give public recognition to the achievements of the recipients themselves, but also to send a clear message to human rights defenders the world over that the international community is grateful for, and supports, their tireless efforts to promote all human rights for all.
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The Hindu