Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva on Tuesday became the first woman to receive one of 10 International Women of Courage awards given out by the US State Department. The other recipients of the 2011 award are Maria Bashir, the prosecutor general in Afghanistan and Nasta Palazhanka, the deputy chair of the Malady Front (Young Front) non-governmental organisation in Belarus.
They also include Henriette Ekwe Ebongo, journalist and publisher of Bebela in Cameroon, and Guo Jianmei, lawyer and director of the Beijing Zhongze Women's Legal Counseling and Service Center in China. The sixth and seventh recipients are Yoani Sanchez, founder of Generacion Y blog in Cuba, and Agnes Osztolykan, member of parliament from the Politics Can Be Different Party in Hungary.
The eighth and ninth recipients are Eva Abu Halaweh, executive director of Mizan Law Group for Human Rights in Jordan, and Marisela Morales Ibanez, deputy attorney general for Special Investigations against Organised Crime in Mexico. The last recipient is Ghulam Sughra, founder and chief executive officer for the Marvi Rural Development Organisation in Pakistan.
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