Torino, 10 December – Marguerite Barankitse, Nobel prize for children, is a Burundian humanitarian with a big heart and is a woman of exception A real feminine “Mandela”, the person we call Maggy is giving her body and soul to ensure a future for her country. She has received various distinctions: The prize for the Rights of Man, Nobel prize for children (World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child), Prize for solidarity, Prize for the defense of deplaced persons, the North South prize, the Four Freedoms award and is honorary doctor of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. The Nansen Refugee Award.
