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Congolese activist wins $100,000 World Children’s Prize for freeing ‘child soldiers’…

By Umbrellus LLC

Posted April 26, 2011

In Child Labor News, child soldiers

The award foundation based in Mariefred, Sweden, cited Murhabazi’s “dangerous struggle to free children forced to be child soldiers or sex slaves” in Democratic Republic of Congo. The foundation said that since 1989, Murhabazi and his organization BVES have freed 4000 child …
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