Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey of Friends of the Earth International received the 2010 Right Livelihood Award for opposing “the practices of multinational corporations in his country and the environmental devastation they leave behind” and “for his inspired work to strengthen the environmental movement in Nigeria and globally.”
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