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NOVEMBER 24 - AZIZA RAHIM ZADA

Fourteen year-old Aziza Rahimzada may be soft-spoken, but she has become a powerful voice for children in Afghanistan’s refugee camps. For four years, she’s stood up against the appalling conditions these children face every day, fighting to make Afghanistan’s famously corrupt government address the needs of refugee children.

In September, she was named one of three global finalists for the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize, but Aziza - who has been dubbed “Afghanistan’s Malala” - says that the important thing about the nomination isn’t the attention to her, but the attention towards her cause: “My work is only for kids,” she says. “I will continue to work for them because in Afghanistan children’s rights are violated in all levels.”

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