Award winner Jasvinder Sanghera, centre, with runners-up Dr Denis Rutovitz and Umra Omar.
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A British human rights activist who escaped a forced marriage, set up a dedicated charity to help victims of honour-based abuse and forced marriage, and helped change the law to make forced marriage a crime has been named winner of a prestigious global award created in honour of the Scots Bard.
Campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera CBE was presented with the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award at an intimate ceremony in Burns Cottage, Alloway where Robert Burns was born almost exactly 260 years to the day.