Who has won the 2016 Civicus Nelson Mandela Graca Machel Innovation Award in individual activist category?
Who has won the 2016 Civicus Nelson Mandela Graca Machel Innovation Award in individual activist category?
[A]Jerome Cowans
[B]Sunitha Krishnan
[C]Tabassum Adnan
[D]Malala Yousafzai
Tabassum Adnan
Tabassum Adnan, a women’s rights activist from Pakistan’s Swat valley, has won the 2016 Civicus Nelson Mandela Graca Machel Innovation Award in individual activist category at Bogota, Colombia. She is the founder of NGO Khwendo Jirga (Sister’s Council), the first women-only ‘jirga’ in Pakistan, to address issues of women’s right, including honour killings and acid attacks.