UNB, Dhaka :
Saima Wazed, Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism, has been elected chairperson of Unesco International Jury Board on Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize.
The international Jury will be assessing the nominations submitted for the individual and organization categories of the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize for the digital empowerment of persons with disabilities. Unesco appoints international Jury of the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize for digital empowerment of persons with disabilities.
The prize, introduced with financial support from Kuwait, consists of two awards-one for an individual and one for an organisation – of $20,000 each. Saima Wazed has been elected head of the board for the next two years, the Bangladesh Embassy in Paris said in a statement.
The four other members are- Catalina Devandas Aguilar, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations Human Rights Council (Costa Rica); May Chidiac, Founder of the May Chidiac Foundation, Lebanese journalist and winner of the Unesco/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2006 (Lebanon); Klaus Miesenberger, Professor, Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz and International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP (Austria); Martin Babu Mwesigwa, Member and Rapporteur of the Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and former Program Manager for the National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda (Uganda).
Saima Wazed, Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism, has been elected chairperson of Unesco International Jury Board on Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize.
The international Jury will be assessing the nominations submitted for the individual and organization categories of the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize for the digital empowerment of persons with disabilities. Unesco appoints international Jury of the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize for digital empowerment of persons with disabilities.
The prize, introduced with financial support from Kuwait, consists of two awards-one for an individual and one for an organisation – of $20,000 each. Saima Wazed has been elected head of the board for the next two years, the Bangladesh Embassy in Paris said in a statement.
The four other members are- Catalina Devandas Aguilar, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations Human Rights Council (Costa Rica); May Chidiac, Founder of the May Chidiac Foundation, Lebanese journalist and winner of the Unesco/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2006 (Lebanon); Klaus Miesenberger, Professor, Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz and International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP (Austria); Martin Babu Mwesigwa, Member and Rapporteur of the Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and former Program Manager for the National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda (Uganda).
