India, Aug. 31 -- India's leading non-profit organisation Educate Girls has been named a 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, Asia's premier prize and highest honour. It is the first Indian organisation ever to receive this award, in recognition of "its commitment to addressing cultural stereotyping through the education of girls and young women, liberating them from the bondage of illiteracy and infusing them with skills, courage, and agency to achieve their full human potential."

The non-profit joins a lineage of distinguished laureates, including filmmaker Satyajit Ray, singer M.S. Subbulakshmi, social reformer Kiran Bedi, and Vinoba Bhave, alongside international icons such as Nobel Peace Prize laureates the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, as...