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Nelson Mandela honored with Humanitarian Award
by Joseph Earnest September 23, 2013
Newscast Media SOWETO—Nelson Mandela was given a Humanitarian Achievement Award at this year's South-South Awards ceremony here on Sunday night.
The former South African president, a global icon for peace and freedom, was awarded for his outstanding leadership for human rights and development. His wife, Graca Machel, received a Humanitarian Achievement Recognition for her tireless advocacy for education, children's welfare and culture.
Mandela and Machel have both contributed greatly to development and human rights across Africa and the whole world. Their most recent initiative, Legacy of Hope, was formed to fund the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa and will bring free healthcare to children in South Africa.
The 95-year-old anti-apartheid hero was admitted to hospital on June 8 for a recurring lung infection. On Sept. 1, Mandela was discharged from hospital.
At the Sunday ceremony, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, the president of Costa Rica, Khalifa bin Saliman Al-Khalifa, the prime minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, the prime minister of Fiji, were given this year's Global Governance Leadership award.
The Global Governance Leadership Awards are presented to individuals who have made distinctive contributions to sustainable development, the youth, e-governance, and information and communications technology.
The theme of this year's award ceremony is "Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development."
"South-South cooperation offers real, concrete solutions to common development challenges," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message to the ceremony. "Sharing best practices, funding pilot projects in far-flung locales, providing the capital to scale-up successful projects, supplying regional public goods, developing and adapting appropriate technologies, these are the opportunities that the international community needs to better leverage." Add Comments>>
Source: Xinhua
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