Every year, the nominees for the World’s Children’s Prize for the rights of the child are invited to Sweden to take part in a spectacular and moving award ceremony conducted by children from around the world, assisted by HM Queen Silvia of Sweden.

In 2011, three great heroes were honored: Murhabazi Namegabe from D. R. Congo. The Honorary Award goes to Cecilia Flores-Oebanda from the Philippines and Monira Rahman from Bangladesh.Watch a video from the ceremony above:

The children conducting the ceremony are experts on the rights of the child through their own life experiences, including as child soldiers, slaves and homeless.

In 2010 a very special award ceremony was held, honouring Decade Child Rights Heroes Graça Machel and Nelson Mandela. Mrs Graça Machel, one of the world leaders of The Elders (www.theelders.org) came to Sweden to accept the award.
> Watch video clips from the Award Ceremony 2010.

The world’s most respected child right heroes present
Ten of the world’s most respected child rights defenders and World’s Children’s Prize laureates were also present in 2010, since this was the 10th anniversary of the World’s Children’s Prize. They included Asfaw Yemiru former street child, who has devoted over 50 years to giving underprivileged children in Ethiopia the chance to go to school, James Aguer, who has, over 20 years, freed thousands of kidnapped children from slave‐labour in Sudan and Somaly Mam, who after being a sex slave as a child, has spent 13 years liberating girls from sex slavery in Cambodia and giving them rehabilitation and education.