MANILA: A campaigner who tackles youth suicide in South Korea, two journalists and a human rights activist were named on Friday among the winners of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Suicide was the second leading cause of death among teenagers in South Korea as recently as 2005, with school bullying directly related to more than half of the cases, the award foundation added. Neelapaijit, who later served as commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, was cited for"her systematic, unflagging work to reform a flawed and unfair legal system".
The editor spent seven years in prison as a young man, where he endured torture and starvation for taking part in student protests against the ruling military junta.