New York ? A Pakistani activist who was gang-raped at the orders of a tribal council was honored by Glamour Magazine as Woman of the Year for her fight against oppression in her homeland.

Mukhtar Mai braved social stigma by going public with her 2002 assault and used the international attention she attracted to set up a girls’ school in her rural community.

“This award is a victory for poor women; it’s a victory for all women,” Mai said at the Wednesday night Lincoln Center ceremony after actress Brooke Shields presented her award. She said her motto is: “End oppression with education.”

Mia, 36, said she plans to donate $5,000 of her $20,000 prize to victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that killed more than 70,000 people in Pakistan. The rest of the money will help her establish schools and a women’s crisis center.

Mai was ordered raped in 2002 by a council of elders in Meerwala, her home village in eastern Punjab province, as punishment for her 13-year-old brother’s alleged affair with a woman from a higher caste. Mai and her family say the boy had been sexually assaulted by members of the woman’s family.

In Pakistan, using rape to restore a family’s honor is commonplace. The victim often kills herself in shame.