Indian social worker Reema Nanavaty was on Thursday honoured with the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award that recognises leaders working for peace and security.
She also initiated SEWA’s food security program that covers one million households and spearheads the ‘Hariyali’ Green Energy and Livelihoods Initiative to provide women access to renewable energy.
Among the past awardees are Venezuelan Political Prisoners, Student Protest leaders of Bangladesh, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, former British foreign secretary William Hague, among others. In 2013, the Government of India honoured Nanavaty with the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri. The other recipients of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for 2026 are fashion designer and Tory Burch Foundation founder Tory Burch; and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and former chief adviser to Bangladesh’s government.
