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Right Livelihood Award, the Glossary

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexküll, and is presented annually in early December.^[1]

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1980 establishments in Sweden
Awards for contributions to society
Civil awards and decorations
Foundations based in Sweden
Governance and civic leadership awards

Abdullah al-Hamid

Abdullah Hamid Ali al-Hamid (1950-2020) or Abu Bilal was a Saudi poet, Arabic professor, human rights activist and a co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA).

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Agnivesh

Swami Agnivesh (born Vepa Shyam Rao; 21 September 193911 September 2020), was an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj.

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Aklilu Lemma

Aklilu Lemma (18 September 1935 – 5 April 1997) was an Ethiopian pathologist.

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Alan Rusbridger

Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953) is a British journalist and editor of Prospect magazine.

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Ales Bialiatski

Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski (Aleś Viktaravič Bialacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human Rights Centre.

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman.

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Alice Stewart

Alice Mary Stewart, née Naish (4 October 190623 June 2002) was a British physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health.

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Alice Tepper Marlin

Alice R. Tepper Marlin (born 1944) serves as President Emerita, Founder, and a member of the board of Social Accountability International (SAI), a standard-setting organization for improving workplaces and communities.

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Alla Yaroshinskaya

Alla Yaroshinskaya (born 14 February 1953 in Zhytomyr Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician and journalist.

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Alliance 90/The Greens

Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), often simply referred to as Greens (Grüne), is a green political party in Germany.

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Alyn Ware

Alyn (Alan) Ware (born 21 March 1962) is a New Zealand peace educator and campaigner in the areas of peace, non-violence, nuclear abolition, international law, women's rights, children's rights and the environment.

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Aminatou Haidar

Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar (أحمد علي حيدر أميناتو; born 24 July 1966), sometimes known as Aminetou, Aminatu or Aminetu, is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara.

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Amory Lovins

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.

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Ancestral land conflict in Botswana

Ancestral land conflict over the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) arose in the 1970s between the government of Botswana and the San people (Bushmen), and is ongoing, resulting in one of the most expensive court cases in the history of Botswana.

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András Bíró

András Bíró (20 October 1925 – 18 June 2024) was a Hungarian journalist, journal editor, environment activist and human rights activist, noted for his support of the Romani people in Hungary.

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Ane Brun

Ane Brun (born Ane Brunvoll on 10 March 1976) is a Norwegian songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist of Sami origin.

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Anwar Fazal

Anwar Fazal (born 15 July 1941 in the village of Malaysia) is a leading civil society activist in multiverse issues including consumer, health, environment, urban governance, heritage and peace.

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Arms industry

The arms industry, also known as the defence (or defense) industry, military industry, or the arms trade, is a global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology.

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Arna Mer-Khamis

Arna Mer-Khamis (20 March 1929 – 15 February 1995) was an Israeli Jewish political and human rights activist.

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Asghar Ali Engineer

Asghar Ali Engineer (10 March 1939 – 14 May 2013) was an Indian reformist writer and social activist.

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Asha Haji Elmi

Asha Haji Elmi (Caasha Xaaji Cilmi, عائشة حاجي علمي) (born 1962) is a Somali politician and peace activist.

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Asian Human Rights Commission

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is an independent, non-governmental body that promotes human rights in Asia and mobilizes Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations.

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Asma Jahangir

Asma Jilani Jahangir (عاصمہ جہانگیر|ʿĀṣimah Jahāṉgīr; 27 January 1952 – 11 February 2018) was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and.

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Association of Peasant Workers of the Carare

The Association of Peasant Workers of the Carare (ATCC) is an organization that was founded in 1987 in the village of La India, part of the municipality of Cimitarra in north-east Colombia, as a reaction to the ongoing violence between various armed groups in the region.

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.

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Baba Amte

Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Baba Amte, (26 December 1914 – 9 February 2008) was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of people suffering from leprosy.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Basil Fernando

W.J. Basil Fernando is a Sri Lankan jurist, author, poet, human rights activist, editor of Article 2 and Ethics in Action,Article 2 and Ethics in Action and a prolific writer.

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Belarusian opposition

The Belarusian opposition consists of groups and individuals in Belarus seeking to challenge, from 1988 to 1991, the authorities of Soviet Belarus, and since 1995, the leader of the country Alexander Lukashenko (allied with Vladimir Putin), whom supporters of the movement often consider to be a dictator.

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Bengt Danielsson

Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921 – 4 July 1997) was a Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the ''Kon-Tiki'' raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947.

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Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger (born Blanca Pérez-Mora Macías; 2 May 1945) ICorrect, 9 March 2011.

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Bill McKibben

William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." Environmental Encyclopedia.

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Bill Mollison

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biosphere

The biosphere, also called the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Birsel Lemke

Birsel Lemke (born 1950) is a Turkish environmentalist.

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Borneo lowland rain forests

The Borneo lowland rain forests is an ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the large island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.

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Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Burundian Civil War

The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005.

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Campaign Against Arms Trade

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based campaigning organisation working towards the abolition of the international arms trade.

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Carl Wolmar Jakob von Uexküll

Carl Wolmar Jakob Freiherr von Uexküll (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer, philanthropist, activist and former politician.

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Carmel Budiardjo

Carmel Budiardjo (née Brickman; 18 June 1925 – 10 July 2021) was an English human rights activist, lecturer, and author.

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Cary Fowler

Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. (born 1949) is an American agriculturalist and the former executive director of the Crop Trust, currently serving as U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security.

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Catherine Hamlin

Elinor Catherine Hamlin, AC, FRCS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG (née Nicholson; 24 January 1924 – 18 March 2020) was an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist who, with her husband, New Zealander Reginald Hamlin, co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the world's only medical centre dedicated exclusively to providing free obstetric fistula repair surgery to poor women with childbirth injuries.

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Cecosesola

CECOSESOLA (Central de las cooperativas de Lara, Cooperatives of Social Services of Lara State) is a hierarchy-free, solidary association of the cooperatives in Venezuela.

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Center for Civil Liberties (human rights organization)

The Center for Civil Liberties (Tsentr Hromadyansʹkykh Svobod) is a Ukrainian human rights organization led by the Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk.

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Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)

The Chad Basin campaign of 2018–2020 was a series of battles and offensives in the southern Chad Basin, particularly northeastern Nigeria, which took place amid the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency.

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Chechens

The Chechens (Нохчий,, Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples native to the North Caucasus.

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Chechnya

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.

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Chemical weapon

A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans.

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Chico Whitaker

Francisco Whitaker Ferreira (born 1931), known as Chico Ferreira, is a Brazilian architect, politician, and social activist.

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Chipko movement

The Chipko movement (lit) is a forest conservation movement in India.

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Christopher Weeramantry

Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, AM (17 November 1926 – 5 January 2017) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who was a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1991 to 2000, serving as its vice-president from 1997 to 2000.

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Cindy Duehring

Cindy Duehring (August 10, 1962 – June 29, 1999) was an American activist and researcher.

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Cirkus (Stockholm)

Cirkus (Cirkus Arena och Restaurang AB) is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden, that holds 1,650 people.

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Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice

Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) is a citizens' movement in South Korea, which was founded in 1989.

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Climate justice

Climate justice is a type of environmental justice that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations.

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Colin Gonsalves

Colin Gonsalves is a designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and the founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN).

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Cumhuriyet

Cumhuriyet (English: "Republic") is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper.

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Dalit

Dalit (from dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, name also written Davi Kobenawä Yanomamö (born Toototobi, Brazil, c. 1956), is a Yanomami shaman and Portuguese-speaking spokesperson for the Yanomami People in Brazil.

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David Lange

David Russell Lange (4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.

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David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist.

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Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an environmental conflict of international importance.

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Dekha Ibrahim Abdi

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Deeqa Ibraahim Cabdi, 17 November 1964 – 14 July 2011) was a Kenyan peace activist based in Mombasa, Kenya.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Direct action

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals.

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Drylands

Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water.

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Duna Kör

Duna Kör (Danube Circle) is a Hungarian environmental organization founded in 1984 as a protest body to prevent the construction of the Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros Dams.

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Economic globalization

Economic globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two others being political globalization and cultural globalization, as well as the general term of globalization.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Edward Goldsmith

Edward René David Goldsmith (8 November 1928 – 21 August 2009), widely known as Teddy Goldsmith, was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher.

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Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.

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Effects of the Chernobyl disaster

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes.

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Ela Bhatt

Ela Ramesh Bhatt (7 September 1933 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996.

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Emergency (organization)

Emergency (stylized as EMERGENCY in all caps) is a humanitarian NGO that provides free medical treatment to the victims of war, poverty, and landmines.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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Erik Dammann

Sir Erik Dammann (born 9 May 1931 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author, environmentalist and government scholar.

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Erwin Kräutler

Erwin Kräutler C.Pp.S. (born 12 July 1939 in Koblach, Austria) is a Roman Catholic bishop who headed the Territorial Prelature of Xingu from 1981 until 2015.

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Eunice Brookman-Amissah

Eunice Brookman-Amssiah is a Ghanaian former Minister of Health and also served as an Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands under the Rawlings government.

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Evaristo Nugkuag

Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan (born 1950) is a Peruvian activist for environmental and indigenous people causes.

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Fartuun Adan

Fartuun Abdisalaan Adan (Fartuun Aadan, فرتون آدن) is a Somali social activist.

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Felicia Langer

Felicia Langer (9 December 1930 – 21 June 2018) was a German-Israeli attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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First People of the Kalahari

First People of the Kalahari (FPK) was a local advocacy organisation in Botswana that worked for the rights of the indigenous San who had been forced by the Government of Botswana to resettle to the new built town of New Xade.

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Food First

Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy, is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, US.

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Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is an American researcher and author in the field of food and democracy policy.

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Francisco Toledo

Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican Zapotec painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The (FAZ; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949.

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Freda Huson

Freda Huson (born May 24, 1964, Smithers, British Columbia), Chief Howilhkat of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in Canada, is an Indigenous rights activist for the Wet'suwet'en people.

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Gandhism

Gandhism is a body of ideas that describes the inspiration, vision, and the life work of Mohandas K. Gandhi.

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Gene Sharp

Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was an American political scientist.

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George Vithoulkas

George Vithoulkas (Γιώργος Βυθούλκας; born 25 July 1932, in Athens) is a Greek teacher and practitioner of homeopathy.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Gino Strada

Gino Strada (21 April 1948 – 13 August 2021) was an Italian war surgeon, human rights activist, peace activist, and founder of Emergency, a recognized international non-governmental organization.

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Gold cyanidation

Gold cyanidation (also known as the cyanide process or the MacArthur–Forrest process) is a hydrometallurgical technique for extracting gold from low-grade ore by converting the gold to a water-soluble coordination complex.

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Gonoshasthaya Kendra

Gonoshasthaya Kendra is the first health center or hospital in independent Bangladesh.

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Government of Indonesia

The term Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Republik Indonesia, sometimes also referred to as the Central Government (Pemerintah Pusat) especially in laws) can have a number of different meanings.

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GRAIN

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

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Green Belt Movement

The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women through the planting of trees.

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Greta Thunberg

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.

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Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer.

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Guo Jianmei

Guo Jianmei (born March 27, 1960) is a Chinese lawyer, human rights activist and director of a women's legal aid NGO.

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Gush Shalom

Gush Shalom is an Israeli peace activism group founded by Uri Avnery in 1993.

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Hans Rudolf Herren

Hans Rudolf Herren (born November 30, 1947) is a Swiss American entomologist, farmer and development specialist.

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Hans-Peter Dürr

Hans-Peter Dürr (7 October 1929 – 18 May 2014) was a German physicist.

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Hanumappa Sudarshan

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Harrison Ngau Laing

Harrison Ngau Laing (born 1959) is a Malaysian environmentalist and politician, a member of the Kayan tribe.

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Hassan Fathy

Hassan Fathy (حسن فتحي; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditional mud construction as opposed to western building designs, material configurations, and lay-outs.

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Health

Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.

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Helen Mack Chang

Helen Beatriz Mack Chang (born 19 January 1952) is a Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist.

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Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of Local Futures, previously known as the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).

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Herman Daly

Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American ecological and Georgist economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States, best known for his time as a senior economist at the World Bank from 1988 to 1994.

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Hermann Scheer

Hermann Scheer (29 April 1944 – 14 October 2010) was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (parliament), President of Eurosolar (European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.

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Hissène Habré

Hissène Habré (Arabic: حسين حبري Ḥusaīn Ḥabrī, Chadian Arabic:;; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 5th president of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

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Huang Ming (entrepreneur)

Huang Ming (born 1958) is a Chinese solar energy researcher and entrepreneur.

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Human genome

The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA molecule found within individual mitochondria.

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Human right to water and sanitation

The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human rights in Iran

From the Imperial Pahlavi dynasty (1925 to 1979), through the Islamic Revolution (1979), to the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979 to current), government treatment of Iranian citizens' rights has been criticized by Iranians, international human rights activists, writers, and NGOs.

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Human rights in Somalia

Human rights in Somalia throughout the late 20th-century and early 21st-century were considered dire, but have gradually improved over the following years.

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Hunter Lovins

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Ibrahim Abouleish

Ibrahim Abouleish (23 March 1937 – 15 June 2017) was an Egyptian philanthropist, drug designer and chemist.

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Ilwad Elman

Ilwad Elman (Ilwaad Elman) is a Somali-Canadian social activist.

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Imane Khalifeh

Imane Khalifeh (1955–1995) was a Lebanese educator and peace activist.

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Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin (Middleton; born March 8, 1940) is an American midwife who has been described as "the mother of authentic midwifery."Granju, K.A. (1999) Salon.com, Brilliant Careers.

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Indonesian National Armed Forces

The Indonesian National Armed Forces (lit; abbreviated as TNI) are the military forces of the Republic of Indonesia.

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Inge Genefke

Inge Genefke (born 1938) is a Danish campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.

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Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest

The Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) is a Peruvian national Indigenous rights organization.

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International Baby Food Action Network

The International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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International Poetry Festival of Medellín

The International Poetry Festival of Medellín (Spanish:Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín) is an annual festival held in Medellín, the second-largest city of Colombia.

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International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) is an independent, international health professional organization that promotes and supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwide.

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Intersex and LGBT

Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (such as genitals, gonads, and chromosome patterns) that "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Irene Fernandez

Irene Fernandez (18 April 1946 – 31 March 2014) was a Malaysian human rights activist and politician.

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Iván Velásquez Gómez

Iván Velásquez Gómez (born 12 May 1955) is a Colombian jurist and diplomat.

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Jacqueline Moudeina

Jacqueline Moudeina (born 1957) is a Chadian lawyer and human rights activist, who is known for her work in bringing Hissène Habré to justice for crimes against humanity, as well as those who worked with him.

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János Vargha

János Vargha (born 1949) is a Hungarian biologist, environmentalist and photographer.

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Jeton Anjain

Jeton Anjain (25 March 1933 – 1993) was a Minister of Health and a senator of the Marshall Islands Parliament.

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Jinzaburo Takagi

was a Japanese assistant professor in nuclear chemistry.

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Johan Galtung

Johan Vincent Galtung (24 October 1930 – 17 February 2024) was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.

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John F. C. Turner

John Francis Charlewood Turner (9 July 1927 – 3 September 2023) was a British architect and theorist known for his work on informal self-help housing and neighbourhood building in Peru, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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John Gofman

John William Gofman (21 September 1918 – 15 August 2007) was an American scientist and advocate.

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José Antonio Abreu

José Antonio Abreu Anselmi (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema.

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José González (singer)

José Gabriel González (born 31 July 1978) is a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg.

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José Lutzenberger

José Antônio Kroeff Lutzenberger (17 December 1926 – 14 May 2002) was a Brazilian agronomist and environmentalist.

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Joseph Ki-Zerbo

Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 – December 4, 2006, Burkina Faso) was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer.

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Juan Pablo Orrego

Juan Pablo Orrego is a Chilean ecologist, musician and environmentalist.

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Kamenge Youth Centre

Kamenge Youth Centre is a youth centre located in Bujumbura, Burundi.

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Kasha Nabagesera

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (also known as Jacqueline Kasha) (born 1980) is a Ugandan LGBT rights activist and the founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization Freedom & Roam Uganda (FARUG).

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Katarina Kruhonja

Katarina Kruhonja (born 1949) is a peace activist from Osijek, eastern Croatia.

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Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist.

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Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad

Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) is a prominent science and literature organization based in the Indian state of Kerala. It was founded in 1962 with the aim of promoting scientific temper, rational thinking, and a scientific approach to societal issues. The organization has played a significant role in popularizing science and scientific knowledge among the general public, particularly in the Malayalam-speaking region.

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Khadija Ismayilova

Khadija Rovshan qizi Ismayilova (Xədicə Rövşən qızı İsmayılova,; born 27 May 1976), alternatively spelled Ismailova, is an Azerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host who is currently working for the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, until recently as the host of the daily debate show İşdən Sonra.

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Krishnammal Jagannathan

Krishnammal Jagannathan (born 16 June 1926) is an Indian social activist from the state of Tamil Nadu.

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Kvinna till Kvinna

The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation (English: Woman to Woman) is a Swedish organization founded in 1993 as a result of the Yugoslav Wars.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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Lake Chad

Lake Chad (Kanuri: Sádǝ) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area of.

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Landless Workers' Movement

The Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST) is a social movement in Brazil aimed at land reform.

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Legesse Wolde-Yohannes

Legesse Wolde-Yohannes (born 1936) is an Ethiopian horticultural scientist.

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Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Boff (born Genézio Darci Boff;; 14 December 1938) is a Brazilian theologian, philosopher writer, and former Catholic priest known for his active support for Latin American liberation theology.

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Leopold Kohr

Leopold Kohr (5 October 1909 – 26 February 1994) was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the Small Is Beautiful movement.

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List of awards for contributions to society

This list of awards for contributions to society is an index to articles on notable awards for contributions to society. Right Livelihood Award and list of awards for contributions to society are awards for contributions to society.

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List of civil awards and decorations

This list of civil awards and decorations is a partial index to articles about notable civil awards and decorations. Right Livelihood Award and list of civil awards and decorations are civil awards and decorations.

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List of environmental awards

This list of environmental awards is an index to articles about notable environmental awards for activities that lead to the protection of the natural environment. Right Livelihood Award and list of environmental awards are environmental awards.

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List of human rights awards

This list of human rights awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for the promotion of human rights. Right Livelihood Award and list of human rights awards are human rights awards.

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List of humanitarian and service awards

This list of humanitarian and service awards is an index to articles on notable awards given for humanitarianism and service in the sense of community service, public service or selfless service. Right Livelihood Award and list of humanitarian and service awards are humanitarian and service awards.

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Lottie Cunningham Wren

Lottie Cunningham Wren (born 1959) is a Miskito Nicaraguan lawyer, environmentalist, and Indigenous rights activist from Nicaragua.

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Manfred Max-Neef

Artur Manfred Max Neef (26 October 1932 – 8 August 2019) was a Chilean economist of German descent.

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Margot Wallström

Margot Elisabeth Wallström (born 28 September 1954) is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2016 to 2019.

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Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Martín Almada

Martín Almada (30 January 1937 – 30 March 2024) was a Paraguayan lawyer, writer and educationalist.

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Marthe Wandou

Marthe Wandou (born 15 October 1963) is a Cameroonian lawyer and women's rights activist.

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Martin Green (professor)

Martin Andrew Green (born 20 July 1948) is an Australian engineer and professor at the University of New South Wales who works on solar energy.

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Mary Dann and Carrie Dann

The Dann Sisters, Mary Dann (1923–2005) and Carrie Dann (1932–2021), were Western Shoshone elders who were spiritual leaders, ranchers, and cultural, spiritual rights and land rights activists.

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Maude Barlow

Maude Victoria Barlow (born May 24, 1947) is a Canadian author and activist.

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Medha Patkar

Medha Patkar (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian Social activist working on social issues for tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Melaku Worede

Melaku Worede (1936 – 31 July 2023) was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist renowned for building one of the finest seed conservation centres in the world, employing science to benefit poor farmers, and saving Africa's seeds from oblivion.

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Memorial (society)

Memorial (p) is an international human rights organisation, founded in Russia during the fall of the Soviet Union to study and examine the human rights violations and other crimes committed under Joseph Stalin's reign.

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Michael Succow

Michael Succow (born 21 April 1941 in Lüdersdorf (now part of Wriezen)), PDF, 171 kB, provided by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, retrieved 9 November 2015 is a German biologist and ecologist.

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Mike Cooley (engineer)

Michael Joseph Edward Cooley (23 March 1934 – 4 September 2020) was an Irish-born engineer, writer and trade union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology, "Socially Useful Production" and "Human Centred Systems".

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Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani

Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani (محمد فهد مفلح القحطاني, born 1965) is a human rights activist, economics professor and political prisoner currently jailed at Al-Ha’ir Prison in Riyadh.

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Monika Hauser

Monika Hauser (born 24 May 1959 in Thal, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born Italian physician, gynecologist, and humanitarian.

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Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.

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Mother Nature Cambodia

Mother Nature is a Cambodian environmental activist group and former non-governmental organization.

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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Mozn Hassan

Mozn Hassan (born 1979) is an Egyptian women's rights campaigner.

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Munir Said Thalib

Munir Said Thalib (8 December 1965 – 7 September 2004) was an Indonesian activist.

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Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider (pronounced Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne) is a German nuclear energy consultant and anti-nuclear activist based in Paris.

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Narmada Bachao Andolan

Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन, 'Save the Narmada River Movement') is an Indian social movement spearheaded by native tribals (adivasis), farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against a number of large dam projects across the Narmada River, which flows through the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

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Narmada River

The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh

Nasrin Sotoudeh (نسرین ستوده) is a human rights lawyer in Iran.

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Nazra for Feminist Studies

Nazra for Feminist Studies is a women's rights organisation based in Egypt.

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Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor Jesús "Nick/Nicky" Pineda Perlas III (born January 10, 1950, in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino activist and awardee of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003, which is often referred as an alternative Nobel Prize.

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Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey (born 11 June 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades.

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Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation (Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. Right Livelihood Award and Nobel Foundation are Foundations based in Sweden.

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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Noble Eightfold Path

The Noble Eightfold Path or Eight Right Paths is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth, in the form of nirvana.

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Nuclear weapons and Israel

The State of Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons.

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Oaxaca

Oaxaca (also,, from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.

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Obstetric fistula

Obstetric fistula is a medical condition in which a hole develops in the birth canal as a result of childbirth.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk

Oleksandra Viacheslavivna Matviichuk (Олександра В’ячеславівна Матвійчук; born 8 October 1983) is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv.

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Organic farming

Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Parliament House, Stockholm

The Parliament House (Riksdagshuset) is the seat of the parliament of Sweden, the Riksdag.

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Pat Roy Mooney

Pat Roy Mooney, for more than thirty years, has worked with civil society organizations on international trade and development issues related to agriculture, biodiversity and emerging technologies.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Patrick van Rensburg

Patrick van Rensburg (3 December 1931 − 23 May 2017) was a South African-born anti-apartheid activist and educator.

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Peace

Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence.

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Penan people

The Penan are a nomadic indigenous people living in Sarawak and Brunei, although there is only one small community in Brunei; among those in Brunei half have been converted to Islam, even if only superficially.

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Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.

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Percy Schmeiser

Percy Schmeiser (5 January 193113 October 2020) was a Canadian businessman, farmer, and politician.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.

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Petra Kelly

Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Phyllis Omido

Phyllis Omido (born Phyllis Indiatsi Omido 1978), dubbed the "East African Erin Brockovich", is a Kenyan environmental activist.

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Physicians for Human Rights–Israel

Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHR-I or PHR-IL) is a non-governmental, non-profit, human rights organization based in Jaffa.

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Plenty International

Plenty International is an environmental, humanitarian aid and human rights organization based in Summertown, Tennessee, United States.

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Raúl Montenegro

Raúl Montenegro Karlic (born 1949) is an Argentine biologist, environmentalist and activist.

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Raji Sourani

Raji Sourani (راجي الصوراني; born 31 December 1953 in Gaza City) is a human rights lawyer and the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

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Rajni Kothari

Rajni Kothari (16 August 1928 – 19 January 2015) was an Indian political scientist, political theorist, academic and writer.

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Reforestation

Reforestation is the practice of restoring previously existing forests and woodlands that have been destroyed or damaged.

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René Ngongo

René Ngongo (born October 1961 in Goma, Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese biologist, environmentalist and political activist.

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Reproductive rights

Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world.

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RMI (energy organization)

RMI, formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, is a think tank in the United States co-founded by Amory Lovins dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the field of sustainability, with a focus on profitable innovations for energy and resource efficiency.

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Robert Bilott

Robert Bilott (born August 2, 1965) is an American environmental attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Robert Jungk

Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum, also known as Robert Baum-Jungk; 11 May 1913 – 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner.

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Romani people in Hungary

Romani people in Hungary (also known as roma or Romani Hungarians; magyarországi romák, magyar cigányok) are Hungarian citizens of Romani descent.

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Rongelap Atoll

Rongelap Atoll (Marshallese: Ron̄ļap) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 61 islands (or motus) in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.

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Rosalie Bertell

Rosalie Bertell (April 4, 1929 – June 14, 2012) was an American scientist, author, environmental activist, epidemiologist, and Catholic nun.

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Roy Sesana

Roy Sesana (born c. 1950) is a San activist who worked together with the First People of the Kalahari for the rights of his people.

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Ruth Manorama

Ruth Manorama (born 30 May 1952) is a Dalit social activist from Bangalore, India who fights for Dalit women's rights, the rights of domestic workers and those in the unorganized labour sector, as well as urban slum dwellers.

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S. M. Mohamed Idris

S.M. Mohamed Idris (6 December 1926 – 17 May 2019) was a Malaysian advocate of consumer rights, environmental protection, and worker's rights.

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SA8000

The SA8000 Standard is an auditable certification standard that encourages organizations to develop, maintain, and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace.

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Sahabat Alam Malaysia

Sahabat Alam Malaysia-Friends of the Earth Malaysia", abbreviated as SAM-FoEM) is a Malaysian NGO established in 1977 to fight for causes related to the Malaysian environment. SAM joined Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) in 1983, and also publishes books and news magazines. SAM's role includes campaigns on pollution, land use, deforestation, fisheries, energy, water, dams, agriculture, indigenous rights and tourism.

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Samuel Epstein (physician)

Samuel Seymour Epstein (April 13, 1926 – March 18, 2018) was a physician and, at the time of his death, professor emeritus of environmental and occupational health at the School of Public Health of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes.

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Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union

The Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union (SCCCU) is a Japanese federation of consumer co-operatives headquartered in Tokyo.

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SEKEM

The organization SEKEM (Ancient Egyptian: 'vitality from the sun') was founded in 1977 by the Egyptian pharmacologist and social entrepreneur Dr.

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Self Employed Women's Association

Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), meaning "service" in several Indian languages, is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India, that promotes the rights of low-income, independently employed female workers.

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Serb Civic Council

The Serb Civic Council (SGV) is a non-governmental organization based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Sexual violence

Sexual violence is any harmful or unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent, by any individual regardless of their relationship to the victim.

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier (born 2 December 1953) is a Canadian Inuk activist.

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Shrikrishna Upadhyay

Krishna Upadhyay (born 1945), also known as Shrikrishna or Srikrishna, is a Nepalese entrepreneur and economist.

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Sima Samar

Sima Samar (سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is a Hazara woman and human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003.

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Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet

Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (5 November 1906 – 9 February 1996) was a British educational pioneer who was prominent in the New Age movement.

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Sithembiso Nyoni

Sithembiso Gile Gladys Nyoni (born 20 September 1949) is a Zimbabwean politician and in 2023 the Industry and Commerce minister.

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Solar energy

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture.

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SOS Méditerranée

SOS Méditerranée is a European, maritime-humanitarian organisation for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Stephen Gaskin

Stephen Gaskin (February 16, 1935 – July 1, 2014) was an American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a spiritual commune in 1970.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Strategic Defense Initiative

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles.

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Sulak Sivaraksa

Sulak Sivaraksa (สุลักษณ์ ศิวรักษ์,;; born 22 March 1933) is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation", named after two authorities on Thai culture, Sathirakoses (Phya Anuman Rajadhon) and (Phra Saraprasoet).

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Survival International

Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the rights of Indigenous and/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples.

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Sustainable development

Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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Sveriges Riksbank

Sveriges Riksbank, or simply the Riksbank, is the central bank of Sweden.

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Svetlana Gannushkina

Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina (Светла́на Алексе́евна Га́ннушкина, born 6 March 1942) is a mathematician and human rights activist in Russia who was reported to have been a serious contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Syrian civil war

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.

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Tapol

Tapol is a British non-governmental organisation monitoring human rights issues in Indonesia.

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Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (19 February 1940 – 20 March 2023) was an Ethiopian scientist who won the Right Livelihood Award in 2000 "for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources.".

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The Local

The Local is a multi-regional, European, English-language digital news publisher with local editions in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Thelma Aldana

Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández (born 27 September 1955) is a Guatemalan jurist and politician who served as President of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2012 and as attorney general from 2014 to 2018.

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Theo van Boven

Theodoor Cornelis (Theo) van Boven (born 26 May 1934, Voorburg) is a Dutch jurist and professor emeritus in international law.

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Tony Clarke (activist)

Tony Clarke (born 1944) is a Canadian activist.

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Tony deBrum

Tony deBrum (also Anton deBrum) (26 February 1945 – 22 August 2017) was a Marshallese politician and government minister.

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Tony Rinaudo

Anthony Thomas Rinaudo (born 19 January 1957) is an Australian agriculturist and missionary.

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Trade justice

Trade justice is a campaign by non-governmental organisations, plus efforts by other actors, to change the rules and practices of world trade in order to promote fairness.

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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.

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Trident Ploughshares (originally named Trident Ploughshares 2000) is an activist anti-nuclear weapons group, founded in 1998 with the aim of "beating swords into ploughshares" (taken from the Book of Isaiah).

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Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery (אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was a German-born Israeli writer, journalist, politician, and activist, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement.

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Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.

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Vesna Teršelič

Vesna Teršelič (born in 1962) is a peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia.

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Viasna Human Rights Centre

The Viasna Human Rights Centre (Pravaabarončy centr «Viasna») is a human rights organization based in Minsk, Belarus.

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Violence against women

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls.

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Vladimir Slivyak

Vladimir Slivyak is a Russian environmental activist.

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Walden Bello

Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

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Waleed Abulkhair

Waleed Sami Abulkhair (وليد أبوالخير; born 17 June 1979) is a Saudi Arabian lawyer and human rights activist, and the head of the Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (MHRSA) organization.

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Wangarĩ Maathai

Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

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War in Somalia (2006–2009)

The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, also known as the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia or the Ethiopian intervention in the Somali Civil War, was an armed conflict that lasted from late 2006 to early 2009.

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Wartime sexual violence

Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.

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Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson (born 1936) co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson.

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Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.

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White Helmets (Syrian civil war)

The White Helmets (al-Ḫawdh al-bayḍāʾ / al-Qubaʿāt al-Bayḍāʾ), officially known as Syria Civil Defence (SCD; الدفاع المدني السوري ad-Difāʿ al-Madanī as-Sūrī), is a volunteer organisation that operates in parts of opposition-controlled Syria and in Turkey.

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Winefreda Geonzon

Winefreda Amit Geonzon (also Winefreda Estanero-Geonzon; October 8, 1941 – July 25, 1990) was a Filipina lawyer and social justice activist.

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Women in China

Like women in many other cultures, women in China have been historically oppressed.

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The World Social Forum (WSF, Fórum Social Mundial) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization.

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