Kehkashan Basu (16 years old, United Arab Emirates, theme: environment) was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize at The Hague, the Netherlands. 

Kehkashan began campaigning to protect the environment at an early age. At the age of just eight, she organised an awareness-raising campaign for the recycling of waste in her neighbourhood in Dubai. In 2012, she founded her own organisation, Green Hope, which runs waste-collection, beach-cleaning and awareness-raising campaigns.

Through a series of campaigns and lectures, she has demonstrated to thousands of school and university students how important it is to care properly for the environment.

Kehkashan has addressed various international conferences and Green Hope is now active in ten countries with more than 1,000 young volunteers.

Kehkashan was nominated by her father.