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Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 20: To highlight atrocities against girls in militancy ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir, social activists and advocate of J&K high court, Deepika Thussoo has been awarded UNFPA -'Laadli Media Award' at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, recently.
For her courage in exposing the atrocities of terrorists, and where girls have suffered in the wake of the fear psychosis, Thussoo's article on Jihadis abducting and raping young girls in militancy ridden areas has been ranked best opinion-editorial in English category in Laadli Media Awards 2009-10.
Thussoo is one among the twenty two winners who were chosen in different categories from the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, UP, MP , J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttranchal, Chattisgarh and UTs of Chandigarh and Delhi. She was also honoured by the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Earlier also Deepika has been awarded with Sonjoy Gosh Media fellowship from Charkha media organization, New Delhi for conducting study on child rights violation in militancy ridden areas of Jammu province and Rippen Kapoor fellowship from child rights and you (CRY) an NGO working for the protection of the child rights in 18 states of country. She for the two last two years is a practicing lawyer in J&K High Court and has raised all the vital issues related to child rights in the state. She is the first in the state to demand setting up of the child rights commission and implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act, 1997. In connection with the implementation of the said Act, she has filed a public interest litigation in state high court seeking directions to the government for setting up of the infrastructure for the rehabilitation of both neglected and delinquent juveniles.
The awardees were judged by an eminent panel of judges from various creative fields. The jury were Usha Rai (veteran journalist), Farhat Ehsas (veteran journalist, Urdu), Raji Srivastava (IAS office handling gender issues, Chandigarh), Abhilash Khandekar (State editorial head of the Dainik Bhaskar group of Newpapers, at Bhopal (MP), NK Singh, resident editor, HT, Bhopal, Nirmala Buch, social workers and former chief secretary, MP OR Niazi, Deputy director, AIR, Mike Pandey, renowned documentary film maker, Annu Anand, senior journalist, and Pushpendra Pal Singh, Head, department of Journalism, Makhan Lal university of Journalism and communication.
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