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Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO)
Uganda
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Oleksandra Matviichuk / Center for Civil Liberties (CCL)
Ukraine
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Marthe Wandou
Cameroon
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Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)
India
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Vladimir Slivyak
Russia
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Freda Huson
Wet’suwet’en People, Canada
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Nasrin Sotoudeh
Iran
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Lottie Cunningham Wren
Nicaragua
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Bryan Stevenson
USA
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Aminatou Haidar
Western Sahara
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Guo Jianmei
China
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Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami Association
Brazil
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Thelma Aldana & Iván Velásquez
Guatemala / Colombia
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Abdullah al-Hamid, Waleed Abu al-Khair & Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani
Saudi Arabia
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Colin Gonsalves
India
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Khadija Ismayilova
Azerbaijan
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Yetnebersh Nigussie
Ethiopia
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Syria Civil Defence
Syria
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Mozn Hassan / NAZRA
Egypt
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Svetlana Gannushkina
Russia
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Cumhuriyet
Turkey
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Tony de Brum / The People of the Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Canada
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Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Uganda
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Edward Snowden
USA
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Alan Rusbridger
UK
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Asma Jahangir
Pakistan
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Basil Fernando / Asian Human Rights Commission
Hong Kong SAR, China
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Paul Walker
USA
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Raji Sourani
Gaza, Palestine
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Denis Mukwege
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
UK
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Sima Samar
Afghanistan
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Jacqueline Moudeina
Chad
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GRAIN
International
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Ina May Gaskin
USA
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Nnimmo Bassey
Nigeria
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Erwin Kräutler
Brazil
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Shrikrishna Upadhyay / SAPPROS
Nepal
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel
Israel
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David Suzuki
Canada
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Catherine Hamlin
Ethiopia
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Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan / LAFTI
India
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Amy Goodman
USA
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Asha Hagi Elmi
Somalia
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Christopher Weeramantry
Sri Lanka
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Dekha Abdi
Kenya
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Chico Whitaker Ferreira
Brazil
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Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín
Colombia
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Francisco Toledo
Mexico
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Irene Fernandez
Malaysia
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Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
Botswana
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Swami Agnivesh
India
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Asghar Ali Engineer
India
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Memorial
Russia
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Bianca Jagger
Nicaragua
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Walden Bello
Philippines
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Centre Jeunes Kamenge
Burundi
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Kvinna till Kvinna
Sweden
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Martín Almada
Paraguay
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Uri and Rachel Avnery / Gush Shalom
Israel
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Leonardo Boff
Brazil
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Trident Ploughshares
UK
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Munir
Indonesia
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Juan Garcés
Spain
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Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
Colombia
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Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
Chile
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International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
International
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The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia (CSMR)
Russia
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Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP)
India
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András Bíró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance
Hungary
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Serb Civic Council
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Carmel Budiardjo
UK
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Sulak Sivaraksa
Thailand
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Astrid Lindgren
Sweden
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Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Nigeria
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Mary and Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation
USA
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Arna Mer-Khamis
Israel
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Zafrullah Chowdhury / Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Bangladesh
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Helen Mack Chang
Guatemala
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Narmada Bachao Andolan / Medha Patkar, Baba Amte
India
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Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
Brazil
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST)
Brazil
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Alice Tepper Marlin
USA
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Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo
Burkina Faso
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Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare (ATCC)
Colombia
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Felicia Langer
Israel / Germany
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Survival
International
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Inge Genefke / Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
Denmark
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José Lutzenberger
Brazil
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John F. Charlewood Turner
UK
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Mordechai Vanunu
Israel
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Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
Australia
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Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
Perú
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Lokayan
India
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Theo van Boven
The Netherlands
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Winefreda Geonzon / FREELAVA
Philippines
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Wangari Maathai
Kenya
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Anwar Fazal
Malaysia
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Mike Cooley
UK
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Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
USA
