Barnrättshjältar 2019

Ashok Dyalchand, India, Spès Nihangaza, Burundi, Guylande Mésadieu, Haiti. Dr Ashok Dyalchand, who has been campaigning against child marriage and fighting for equal rights for girls for 40 years, has been chosen by millions of children to be this year’s Child Rights Hero and recipient of the World’s Children’s Prize, (WCP), known as the “Children’s Nobel Prize” by worldwide media. Dr Dyalchand supports girls, but also gets boys and men in India on board in the fight for gender equality. Two other child rights champions were also honoured today: Spès Nihangaza, Burundi, for her 25-year fight for orphaned children who have been severely affected by the AIDS epidemic and a brutal civil war, and Guylande Mésadieu, Haiti, who has been fighting for 20 years for children who have been forced into slavery, children in prison and children on the street.