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UN honours Deng's disabled son
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/32868... Deng injured his spine when he was attacked by Red Guards in 1968
The son of former Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has won one
of this year's UN human rights awards.
Deng Pufang, a paraplegic since he was forced to jump from a window
during China's Cultural Revolution, was honoured for his work for the
disabled.
Sergio Vieira De Mello, the UN envoy killed in Baghdad in August, and
an Argentinean grandmother who campaigns for missing children were
also named.
The awards are made every five years to reward leading human rights
figures.
The UN highlighted Mr Deng's foundation of the China Disabled Persons'
Federation in 1988.
"His many years of tireless effort to promote the human rights of the
disabled in China through legislation, programmes and activities, is
exemplary," according to UN General Assembly President Julian Hunte.
Mr Vieira de Mello was given a special posthumous award for more than
30 years' work for the UN, including a spell as high commissioner for
refugees.
The awards will be made in New York on 10 December, to mark
international human rights day.
Other awardees are:
Barnes de Carlotto, for her work as the president of the Association
of Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers, established in 1977 to find hundreds of
children who disappeared following the 1976 military coup in
Argentina.
The Family Protection Project Management Team of Jordan, for promoting
open discussion of such taboo subjects as domestic violence, gender
equality and other human rights issues.
Ms Shulamith Koenig of the United States, who founded the People's
Movement for Human Rights Education in 1988 to create a global human
rights culture.
The Mano River Women's Peace Network groups women's organizations in
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to prevent conflict and build peace.
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