PM receives 2 awards for humanitarian role on Rohingya
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was conferred with the prestigious ‘International Achievement Award’ and the ‘2018 Special Distinction Award for Outstanding Leadership’ for her humanitarian and responsible policy in hosting the Rohingyas.
Inter Press Service (IPS), a global news agency, conferred the ‘International Achievement Award’ on her, while the Global Hope Coalition, a network of three not-for-profit foundations based in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong, honoured the prime minister with the ‘2018 Special Distinction Award for Outstanding Leadership’.
The prime minister received the awards at two separate functions on Thursday (Sept 27) evening.
She received the ‘International Achievement Award’ from Director General of International Organization for Migration Ambassador William Lucy Swing at a high-level reception at the Conference Room 8 of the UN Headquarters here.
Under Secretary General of the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock and Canadian Minister for International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau spoke at the function while Director-General of IPS International Farhana Haque Rahman delivered the welcome address.
Sheikh Hasina received the ‘2018 Special Distinction Award for Outstanding Leadership’ from Irina Bokova, Honorary President of Global Hope Coalition, at the annual awards dinner of the organisation here.
“I dedicate this award to the people of my country who have opened their hearts and houses to shelter 1.1 million traumatised forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals”, the prime minister said after receiving the awards.
