The Diana Award is given to those who are considered changemakers for their generation and is named after Princess Diana, who died 25 years ago
, an issue he raised in a House of Commons sitting of the youth parliament following the fatal stabbing of Harehills teenager Irfan ‘Iffy’ Wahid.
"It was something that really drove the campaign forward. I spoke to young people in Harehills after and some of them were so vulnerable that they were just carrying a knife and using vocabulary like ‘I carry a knife because I feel like a superhero, I want to protect myself’. "It was just an amazing response from the public and that motion got passed,” he said. “It became one of the national campaigns for the UK Youth Parliament. What that meant was that we campaigned throughout the country.
"Kashmir is a very big problem when it comes to human rights,” he said. “People in Kashmir don't have basic human rights. I spoke on that when I went to Pakistan and my work on the Kashmir issue and on human rights was awarded by the prime minister Imran Khan at the time.” "We know by receiving this honour they will inspire more young people to get involved in their communities and begin their own journey as active citizens.”
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