The Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman today won the Mother Teresa Award for 2018 in India.

The award ceremony took place Sunday in the Indian capital, New Delhi, in the presence of about 700 people from around the world.

Since 2005, the Mother Teresa Award has been awarded to ten international personalities and activists who play a role in volunteerism, serving humanity, coexistence and world peace.

During her award ceremony, Karman gave a speech in which she expressed her pride in the important humanitarian award given to her.

Karman said that awarding her the award is an additional incentive to affirm her faith in the human values that represent her orientation and the basis of her activity and effectiveness, “an incentive that increases my belief in the struggle for peace, justice, freedom, dignity, equality and a decent life for all human beings.”

"It is a great honor to be awarded a prestigious award such as the Mother Teresa Award," said Karman. "Mother Teresa has struggled for the poor to realize that the pain of poverty, deprivation and hunger hurts the human psyche, hurts society and threatens to destroy it,” she said.

Karman stressed that the message for which Mother Teresa lived and all those struggling for peace, justice and human dignity would not die.

Karman said peace, justice, dignity and freedom are synonymous with human beings.