Ramon Magsaysay 2013 awardees, (from left) Nepal’s anti-trafficking organisation Shakti Samuha (Power Group) represented by the organisation’s head Sunita Danuwar, Afghanistan’s first and only woman governor Habiba Sarabi, Myanmar’s civil society organiser Lahpai Seng Raw, Indonesia’s anti-graft body Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission) represented by commissioners Adnan Pandu Praja and Abraham Samad and Filipino doctor Ernesto O Domingo pose during the award ceremony held in Manila, Philippines yesterday. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is one of Asia’s highest honours and is widely regarded as the region’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
