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Pakistan Based Swat Activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award

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About Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award

Established: 2004
Constituted: CIVICUS World Assembly in Gaborone, BotswanaSwat activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award
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