About Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award
Established: 2004
Constituted: CIVICUS World Assembly in Gaborone, Botswana
Purpose: Innovative ideas emerging from organisations or groups of organisations participating in the CIVICUS World Assembly
Award:
- Funding value of US 5,000 dollars
- Pakistani activist Tabassum Adnan, who fights for women’s rights, has won the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Award 2016 in the individual activist category.
- Venue: Colombia
About Tabassum Adnan
- Hails from Swat Valley, Pakistan
- Founder of NGO, Khwendo Jirga – the first women-only ‘Jirga’ in Pakistan
- Married at age 13, Adnan suffered 20 years of physical and mental abuse before she divorced her husband
- To address issues of women’s right, including honour killings and acid attacks
- Under Jirga, she dealt issues related to women’s security and their voting rights
- Adnan was awarded the International Women of Courage award in the US
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