"Children’s Nobel Prize" goes to Indian activist against child marriage
Dr Ashok Dyalchand from Pachod, India, has been chosen by millions of children to be this year’s Child Rights Hero and recipient of the World’s Children’s Prize, (WCP), dubbed as the “Children’s Nobel Prize” by worldwide media. Dr Dyalchand has been campaigning against child marriage and fighting for equal rights for girls for 40 years, also involving boys and men in the fight for equality .