Five Honored for Women's Leadership (2/2)

She co-founded the Shan Women's Action Network, which is based in Thailand and documents rapes and other abuses by Burma's military government against women and girls.

"For us - for the women of Burma - this award means a lot to us. Because every statement, every single action, every award like this, makes sure it's also a message of solidarity that the world has not given up on our hope and for a future democratic and free Burma."

Other award recipients included Kakenya Ntaiya, a young Kenyan woman, who negotiated with her father and agreed to undergo female circumcision, if he allowed her to go to school. She later won a scholarship to attend university in the United States and is now finishing her doctorate in education at the University of Pittsburgh. She plans to start a boarding school for girls in her Maasai village in Kenya.

Vital Voices is a non-governmental organization that trains emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs. Since 1997, the group has mentored more than 5,000 women leaders from 150, countries who later returned home to train more than 100,000 additional women in their communities.

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她（蔷东）是掸族妇女行动网的联合创始人之一。掸族妇女行动网的总部设在泰国，它证明了缅甸军政府对妇女和女童施加了强奸和其他虐待。

“对我们以及缅甸的妇女来说，这个奖给我们带来了深远的意义。因为每一次声明、每一次行动、每一个这样的奖项，都（使我们）确信这是个可靠的讯息告诉我们这个世界没有放弃对我们的希望，未来的缅甸将是民主的，自由的。”

领奖人还包括年轻的肯尼亚女子Kakenya Ntaiya，她曾与她的父亲经过谈判，最终同意接受女性割礼，以换取上学的权利。后来Ntaiya获得了赴美国读大学的奖学金，现在她即将完成匹兹堡大学的博士学位。Ntaiya准备为她肯尼亚家乡马赛村的女孩们创办一所寄宿学校。

生命之声是一家训练新生妇女领袖和社会企业家的非政府组织。自1997年以来，该组织指导了来自150个国家的5000多名妇女领袖，她们后来回国又在自己的社区训练了10万名妇女.

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