A 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy has won this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize for his work to fight cyberbullying(网络欺凌) in his country. The prize winner, Sadat Rahman, promised to keep fighting cyberbullying until it no longer exists. “The fight is like a war, and in this war I am a soldier,” Sadat Rahman said during a ceremony on November 13 in The Hague, Netherlands. He added, “If everybody keeps supporting me, then together we will win this battle.”
Rahman developed a mobile phone application that provides education about online bullying and a way to report cases of it. He said he began his work on the project after hearing the story of a 15-year-old girl who took her own life as a result of cyberbullying.` “I will not stop until we receive no more cases through the app,” Rahman said at the ceremony.
The award comes with fund of over $118,000, which is invested by the KidsRights Foundation. The group chooses projects to support cases that are closely linked to the winner’s work. Past well-known winners of the prize include Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. And students who organized the March for Our Lives event in 2018 after a deadly mass shooting at their school in the American state of Florida also won.
Yousafzai won the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2013. A year later, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for girls to have a universal right to education. Yousafzai spoke highly of Rahman’s work during the ceremony. She spoke through video conferencing, “All children have the right to be protected from violence no matter if it is physical or mental, offline or online.” She added, “Cyberbullying is a violation of that right.”
【小题1】Why did Sadat Rahman win the prize?| A．He trained soldiers to fight for justice. |
| B．He made a contribution to the world peace. |
| C．He was devoted to battling against online abuse. |
| D．He organized a campaign against physical bullying. |
| A．A girl’s true story. | B．An education report. |
| C．His own experience. | D．A mobile phone application. |
| A．The winner will earn a large sum of money as a reward. |
| B．A Pakistani human rights activist will be awarded next year. |
| C．Sadat Rahman may use the fund to fight against cyberbullying. |
| D．Students surviving a deadly mass shooting also won the prize. |
| A．Objective. | B．Supportive. | C．Negative. | D．Ambiguous. |
