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The other two winners are Myanmar activist Bo Kyi, 61 and Bangladeshi teacher Runa Khan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Bo Kyi, whose group documents human rights atrocities, was recognised for his efforts to defend political prisoners and “human dignity” in Myanmar.<\/p>\n
He had been arrested twice and spent seven years in prison for defending democracy and resisting widespread human rights violations by Myanmar\u2019s military.<\/p>\n
In March 2000, he worked with fellow former political prisoners to organise the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which has \u201cdevoted itself to documenting political imprisonment, supporting detainees and their families and ensuring the continued visibility of the junta\u2019s political prisoners in Myanmar and around the world\u201d, RMAF said.<\/p>\n
He has demanded the release of all political prisoners in his country, including former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and helped raise funds to support the detainees and their families, it said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ms Khan won the award for \u201cher profound empathy for the poorest of the poor in her country\u201d.<\/p>\n
Coming from an affluent family, she first served as a teacher to poor children in 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2002, she established an organisation called \u201cFriendship Bangladesh\u201d that helped the most destitute \u201cdeal with climate change, educate their children, empower women, create livelihood opportunities and bring social justice to the excluded,\u201d said RMAF.<\/p>\n
The 67-year-old’s group now employs more than 7,500 people, with seven hospital ships, two land-based hospitals and 550 mobile clinics, it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn her hands, privilege became not an entitlement, but a responsibility; not a family legacy to protect, but a gift to be shared so that others, too, might have the chance to live with hope, opportunity and dignity,\u201d the foundation said.<\/p>\n
The winners will be recognised at the Metropolitan Theatre in Manila on Nov 15 with a medallion, an inscribed certificate and an undisclosed cash prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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