By TCN News,
Kuwait: The 2014 IKFS Global Peace Award will be named in the honour of late human rights activist Rachel Corrie, the Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society (IKFS) has declared.
The IKFS, a leading socio-cultural, non-religious, non-political non-profit NRI association announced that the award will be known as ‘IKFS Rachel Corrie Global Peace Award 2014’, a release from the IKFS said.
Late Rachel Corrie
Corrie, 23, from Washington (USA) was killed on March 16, 2003 while she was trying to prevent Israeli army bulldozers from destroying a Palestinian home, the release said, adding, “Rachel was run over twice by the Israeli bulldozers in its process of demolishing the Palestinian home. Rachel was standing with other non-violent international activists in front of that particular home. She was injured badly and was taken to a hospital, but was declared dead on arrival.”
“The peace loving people of the world cannot forget Rachel as long as his world stands and the Palestinian problem solves,” Dr Ghalib Al-Mashoor, IKFS president said.
“We at IKFS want the world to remember her sacrifice,” advocate Sayid Nizar, vice president IKFS said.
IKFS plans to conduct an essay competition and invited ’23 page’ essays on the topic ‘Global Violence and Remedy for Peace’ in Arabic and English. Entries are expected from young women of 23 years of age in Rachel’s memory.