Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has been conferred on the Gusi Peace Prize for her “exemplary achievements” in the field of “public service and diplomacy”, according to media reports.
She received the prize in Manila on Thursday.
The prize is given by the Gusi Peace Prize Foundation, based in Manila, Philippines, mandated by Presidential Proclamation No 1476.
It is given to recognize individuals and organizations who contribute to global peace and progress through various fields.
The award ceremonies are held yearly on the fourth Wednesday of November, the Gusi Peace Prize International Friendship Day.
It was held at the Club Philippino and fourteen awardees from fourteen countries - Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Myanmar, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the Philippines received this prize for 2022.
Dipu Moni has been the education minister of Bangladesh since January 2019 and a member of parliament representing the Chandpur-3 constituency since 2009.
She was the first female foreign minister of Bangladesh from 2009 to 2013.
Dr Dipu Moni was also the chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the All Party Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Rights between 2014 and 2018.
She studied MBBS at Dhaka Medical College.
Dipu Moni earned a Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and did her Masters in Law from the University of London.
In 2018 she was named one of the 150 Leading Women of the University of London in its history of 150 years of female education.
Her father MA Wadud, a close associate of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was a founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League.
He was the first council-elected general secretary of the Students League and was known especially for his role in the Language Movement in 1952.
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