Kielburger Wins Nobel

http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/04/kielburger-wins-nobel.html Craig Kielburger, who began his fight for the rights of children as a 12-year-old boy outraged by the death of an activist who opposed child labour in Pakistan, has won the "Children's Nobel Prize." Swedish authorities announced on Tuesday that the 23-year-old, who lives in Thornhill, Ont., had been awarded the 2006 World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child. Craig Kielburger, shown in 2004, is receiving the prize as a result of his work with Free the Children, which he founded in 1995. (Aaron Harris/Canadian Press) Annual winners are chosen by a vote of nearly four million young people from around the globe. Past winners have included former South African president Nelson Mandela, former UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy and Joseph Stiglitz, who got the 2001 Nobel in economics. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/18/kielburger-prize060418.html [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on April 21, 2006]

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