Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been bestowed an honorary Doctor of Laws at Monash University in Melbourne.
The honorary degree is the highest award conferred by the university and recognises extraordinary contributions to society.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a patron the university's international reconciliation network.
In accepting the degree, Nobel Peace Prize winner said the legal community has an important role to play in reforming her country's constitution which she says is rejected by most of the ethnic nationalities.
"It militates against national reconciliation," she said.
"A constitution has to be acceptable to the vast majority of the people of the land. They all have to feel that it is there to protect them and to make sure they are the equal of everybody else in the land."
Ms Suu Kyi is visiting Australia for the first time in a bid to encourage global interest in democratic reform in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Yesterday and earlier in the six-day trip .
She will fly out from Australia on Monday.
Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/11/30/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-given-honorary-doctorate-at-monash/
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