Afghan refugee teacher in Pakistan wins UN award
An Afghan woman teacher who has been educating refugee girls in Pakistan for more than 20 years has been honoured by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for her work.
Aqeela Asifi is this year's recipient of the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award which recognises outstanding work on behalf of the forcibly displaced.
A teacher of history and geography, Ms Asifi and her family fled the civil war in Afghanistan in 1992.
She told the BBC she had felt "a moral obligation" to give girls in Pakistan's Kot Chandana refugee village "the basic human right of education" - despite the challenges she faced from the community.