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  • Cecosesola

    2022 , Venezuela

  • Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO)

    2022 , Uganda

  • Oleksandra Matviichuk / Center for Civil Liberties (CCL)

    2022 , Ukraine

  • Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman

    2022 , Somalia

  • Marthe Wandou

    2021 , Cameroon

  • Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)

    2021 , India

  • Vladimir Slivyak

    2021 , Russia

  • Freda Huson

    2021 , Wet’suwet’en People, Canada

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh

    2020 , Iran

  • Ales Bialiatski / Viasna

    2020 , Belarus

  • Lottie Cunningham Wren

    2020 , Nicaragua

  • Bryan Stevenson

    2020 , USA

  • Aminatou Haidar

    2019 , Western Sahara

  • Guo Jianmei

    2019 , China

  • Greta Thunberg

    2019 , Sweden

  • Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami Association

    2019 , Brazil

  • Thelma Aldana & Iván Velásquez

    2018 , Guatemala / Colombia

  • Tony Rinaudo

    2018 , Australia

  • Abdullah al-Hamid, Waleed Abu al-Khair & Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani

    2018 , Saudi Arabia

  • Yacouba Sawadogo

    2018 , Burkina Faso

  • Robert Bilott

    2017 , USA

  • Colin Gonsalves

    2017 , India

  • Khadija Ismayilova

    2017 , Azerbaijan

  • Yetnebersh Nigussie

    2017 , Ethiopia

  • Syria Civil Defence

    2016 , Syria

  • Mozn Hassan / NAZRA

    2016 , Egypt

  • Svetlana Gannushkina

    2016 , Russia

  • Cumhuriyet

    2016 , Turkey

  • Gino Strada / EMERGENCY

    2015 , Italy

  • Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera

    2015 , Uganda

  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier

    2015 , Canada

  • Tony de Brum / The People of the Marshall Islands

    2015 , Marshall Islands

  • Bill McKibben / 350.org

    2014 , USA

  • Basil Fernando / Asian Human Rights Commission

    2014 , Hong Kong SAR, China

  • Asma Jahangir

    2014 , Pakistan

  • Alan Rusbridger

    2014 , UK

  • Edward Snowden

    2014 , USA

  • Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation

    2013 , Switzerland

  • Denis Mukwege

    2013 , Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Raji Sourani

    2013 , Gaza, Palestine

  • Paul Walker

    2013 , USA

  • Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)

    2012 , UK

  • Gene Sharp

    2012 , USA

  • Sima Samar

    2012 , Afghanistan

  • Hayrettin Karaca

    2012 , Turkey

  • Ina May Gaskin

    2011 , USA

  • GRAIN

    2011 , International

  • Jacqueline Moudeina

    2011 , Chad

  • Huang Ming

    2011 , China

  • Physicians for Human Rights – Israel

    2010 , Israel

  • Shrikrishna Upadhyay / SAPPROS

    2010 , Nepal

  • Erwin Kräutler

    2010 , Brazil

  • Nnimmo Bassey

    2010 , Nigeria

  • Catherine Hamlin

    2009 , Ethiopia

  • Alyn Ware

    2009 , New Zealand

  • René Ngongo

    2009 , Democratic Republic of Congo

  • David Suzuki

    2009 , Canada

  • Monika Hauser

    2008 , Germany

  • Asha Hagi Elmi

    2008 , Somalia

  • Amy Goodman

    2008 , USA

  • Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan / LAFTI

    2008 , India

  • Grameen Shakti

    2007 , Bangladesh

  • Percy and Louise Schmeiser

    2007 , Canada

  • Dekha Abdi

    2007 , Kenya

  • Christopher Weeramantry

    2007 , Sri Lanka

  • Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín

    2006 , Colombia

  • Ruth Manorama

    2006 , India

  • Daniel Ellsberg

    2006 , USA

  • Chico Whitaker Ferreira

    2006 , Brazil

  • Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari

    2005 , Botswana

  • Irene Fernandez

    2005 , Malaysia

  • Tony Clarke

    2005 , Canada

  • Maude Barlow

    2005 , Canada

  • Francisco Toledo

    2005 , Mexico

  • Raúl Montenegro

    2004 , Argentina

  • Bianca Jagger

    2004 , Nicaragua

  • Memorial

    2004 , Russia

  • Asghar Ali Engineer

    2004 , India

  • Swami Agnivesh

    2004 , India

  • Ibrahim Abouleish / SEKEM

    2003 , Egypt

  • Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice

    2003 , South Korea

  • Nicanor Perlas

    2003 , Philippines

  • Walden Bello

    2003 , Philippines

  • David Lange

    2003 , New Zealand

  • Martín Almada

    2002 , Paraguay

  • Kvinna till Kvinna

    2002 , Sweden

  • Centre Jeunes Kamenge

    2002 , Burundi

  • Martin Green

    2002 , Australia

  • Trident Ploughshares

    2001 , UK

  • Leonardo Boff

    2001 , Brazil

  • Uri and Rachel Avnery / Gush Shalom

    2001 , Israel

  • José Antonio Abreu

    2001 , Venezuela

  • Wes Jackson / The Land Institute

    2000 , USA

  • Birsel Lemke

    2000 , Turkey

  • Munir

    2000 , Indonesia

  • Tewolde Berhan

    2000 , Ethiopia

  • Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)

    1999 , Cuba

  • Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)

    1999 , Colombia

  • Juan Garcés

    1999 , Spain

  • Hermann Scheer

    1999 , Germany

  • Vesna Terselic

    1998 , Croatia

  • Katarina Kruhonja

    1998 , Croatia

  • Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)

    1998 , Chile

  • Samuel Epstein

    1998 , USA

  • International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)

    1998 , International

  • Cindy Duehring

    1997 , USA

  • Joseph Ki-Zerbo

    1997 , Burkina Faso

  • Jinzaburo Takagi

    1997 , Japan

  • Mycle Schneider

    1997 , France

  • Michael Succow

    1997 , Germany

  • George Vithoulkas

    1996 , Greece

  • Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP)

    1996 , India

  • The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia (CSMR)

    1996 , Russia

  • Herman Daly

    1996 , USA

  • Sulak Sivaraksa

    1995 , Thailand

  • Carmel Budiardjo

    1995 , UK

  • Serb Civic Council

    1995 , Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • András Bíró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance

    1995 , Hungary

  • Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

    1994 , Nigeria

  • Hanumappa R. Sudarshan / VGKK

    1994 , India

  • Servol (Service Volunteered for All)

    1994 , Trinidad & Tobago

  • Astrid Lindgren

    1994 , Sweden

  • Mary and Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation

    1993 , USA

  • Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP)

    1993 , Zimbabwe

  • Arna Mer-Khamis

    1993 , Israel

  • Vandana Shiva

    1993 , India

  • Alla Yaroshinskaya

    1992 , Russia

  • John Gofman

    1992 , USA

  • Helen Mack Chang

    1992 , Guatemala

  • Zafrullah Chowdhury / Gonoshasthaya Kendra

    1992 , Bangladesh

  • Suomen Kylät / Finnish Village Movement Association

    1992 , Finland

  • Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST)

    1991 , Brazil

  • Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)

    1991 , Brazil

  • Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People

    1991 , Marshall Islands

  • Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson

    1991 , Polynesia

  • Narmada Bachao Andolan / Medha Patkar, Baba Amte

    1991 , India

  • Edward Goldsmith

    1991 , UK

  • Felicia Langer

    1990 , Israel / Germany

  • Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare (ATCC)

    1990 , Colombia

  • Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo

    1990 , Burkina Faso

  • Alice Tepper Marlin

    1990 , USA

  • Survival

    1989 , International

  • Legesse Wolde-Yohannes

    1989 , Ethiopia

  • Aklilu Lemma

    1989 , Ethiopia

  • Melaku Worede

    1989 , Ethiopia

  • Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative

    1989 , Japan

  • Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) – Sarawak

    1988 , Malaysia

  • John F. Charlewood Turner

    1988 , UK

  • José Lutzenberger

    1988 , Brazil

  • Inge Genefke / Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims

    1988 , Denmark

  • Mordechai Vanunu

    1987 , Israel

  • Frances Moore-Lappé

    1987 , USA

  • The Chipko Movement

    1987 , India

  • Johan Galtung

    1987 , Norway

  • Hans-Peter Dürr

    1987 , Germany

  • Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan

    1986 , Perú

  • Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group

    1986 , Australia

  • Alice Stewart

    1986 , UK

  • Rosalie Bertell

    1986 , Canada

  • Robert Jungk

    1986 , Austria

  • János Vargha / Duna Kör

    1985 , Hungary

  • Lokayan

    1985 , India

  • Pat Mooney

    1985 , Canada

  • Cary Fowler

    1985 , USA

  • Theo van Boven

    1985 , The Netherlands

  • Wangari Maathai

    1984 , Kenya

  • Winefreda Geonzon / FREELAVA

    1984 , Philippines

  • Ela Bhatt / Self-Employed Women’s Association

    1984 , India

  • Imane Khalifeh

    1984 , Lebanon

  • Amory and Hunter Lovins

    1983 , USA

  • Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR

    1983 , Chile

  • High Chief Ibedul Gibbons / The People of Belau

    1983 , Palau

  • Leopold Kohr

    1983 , Austria

  • George Trevelyan

    1982 , UK

  • Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA)

    1982 , Sri Lanka

  • Anwar Fazal

    1982 , Malaysia

  • Erik Dammann / Future in Our Hands

    1982 , Norway

  • Petra Kelly

    1982 , Germany

  • Patrick van Rensburg

    1981 , South Africa

  • Bill Mollison

    1981 , Australia

  • Mike Cooley

    1981 , UK

  • Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International

    1980 , USA

  • Hassan Fathy

    1980 , Egypt

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