On April 28 Sweden held the awarding ceremony: the World's Children's Prize, to celebrate the work of children's rights advocates.

The name of the adult chosen to become the 2011 children's rights hero was finally announced on Tuesday: it's Murhabazi Namegabe, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was voted by 3.2 million children all over the world.

Namegabe, founder of the organization Bureau pour le Volontariat au Service de l'Enfance et de la Santè (BVES), has dedicated his life to rescue children in need and was elected "for his dangerous struggle to free children forced to be child soldiers or sex slaves."

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