Thursday, April 4, 2013

Vital Voices Global Leadership Award

Vital Voices Global Leadership Award 


WASHINGTON: Three brothers from India have received the prestigious Vital Voices Global Leadership Award from US Vice President Joe Biden for their humanitarian working to end violence against women.

The three, Ravi, Rishi and Nishi Kant, who started the nongovernmental organization Shakti Vahini to fight injustice against women in 2001, received a "Solidarity Award" for their work at the annual Kennedy Centre event on 2 April 2013.

Vital Voices, which was started by former first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton in 1997, upholds Shakti Vahini as a glowing example of how a group of men can and should work on women's issues.


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