UNIVERSITY of Winnipeg Students Association president Megan Fultz has won the 2013 Sybil Shack Human Rights Youth Award.
The Association for Rights and Liberties, The Manitoba Human Rights Commission, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission announced the recipients of the 2013 Human Rights Commitment Award of Manitoba and the Sybil Shack Human Rights Youth Award Thursday.
Fultz graduated with a degree in International Development Studies and Human Rights and Global Studies from the U of W in June and is interested in pursuing a career in international human-rights law.
Among her many accomplishments, Fultz spent several years involved in activist work pertaining to women's rights, the rights of persons with disabilities, the alleviation of global poverty, legal empowerment and social inequality/exclusion, U of W officials said.
When she was 16, Fultz helped start the Winnipeg chapter of the international human rights organization, Oxfam Canada. She served as the youngest Prairie regional chairperson of Oxfam Canada and as the president of Oxfam Winnipeg for three years. She was also chosen to be an Oxfam international youth partner, travelling to New Delhi, India, in 2010 and collaborated with young people from 97 other countries on community leadership projects from all over the world. Last month, Fultz was selected to speak to 16,000 Manitoba youths at We Day.
An awards ceremony will be held on Dec. 10.