Hazar Imam to receive Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship 2016-09-21

Toronto, 19 September 2016 — Mawlana Hazar Imam will receive the inaugural Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship on the evening of Wednesday, 21 September in Toronto. As part of the ceremony, Mawlana Hazar Imam will deliver a speech that will be webcast live on TheIsmaili.org at 7:30 PM EDT (Toronto time). The awarding of the Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship will culminate the 6 Degrees Citizen Space 2016 conference presented by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. The annual award recognises a leader whose life has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to the ideals of belonging and inclusion. Through their words, actions and results, a recipient will have encouraged thought and dialogue, approaches and strategies that strive to remove barriers, change attitudes, and reinforce the principles of tolerance and respect. On CBC Radio FM 99.1 Adrienne Clarkson said about H.H The Aga Khan that he is "the most remarkable human being who has worked in 30 different countries with 80,000 people working all around the world to help improve the lives of the most disadvantaged people through health, through education, through beauty, through architecture, through the redevelopment of cities, through the giving of parks, making a park out of the largest garbage dump in Cairo. This man has in his lifetime, in the last 60 years as Imam of the Ismaili people has been an extraordinary contributor to what we call "citizenship"