Madrid, who heads a multi sectoral, multidisciplinary effort in child protection, devoted her career to setting up a medical system for abused children. She received the award on Wednesday. READ:
environmental advocacies in this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, the region’s highest honor and version of the Nobel Prize.Japanese ophthalmologist Tadashi Hattori, Cambodian psychiatrist Sotheara Chhim, Filipina pediatrician Bernadette Madrid, and environmental advocate Gary Bencheghib from Indonesia receive their trophies for the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, the region’s highest honor and version of the Nobel Prize, on Wednesday.
“Violence against children is a crisis. Children are fast becoming an endangered species, and with them goes our humanity,” Madrid said in her speech during the awarding ceremony held at the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Center in Manila, which was also livestreamed online. It generated wide public interest and triggered the Indonesian government to embark on a seven-year Citarum River rehabilitation program.
“We need a radical shift in how we think and how we use plastics. And it starts directly in our rivers, where we can still stop this disaster from destroying our planet and our health,” he added. “I am in no way an elite doctor. I am just filled with joy when patients smile when they see light again… Regaining vision is not only about being able to see, but about discovering hope in life,” Hattori said.
TPO worked on the “Truth, Trauma, and Victims of Torture” project at the time the Khmer Rouge Tribunal was investigating the Cambodian genocide. Chhim took part as an expert witness.
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