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Right Livelihood Awards Go to Iranian Lawyer, Nicaraguan Land Defender, Belarusian Activist & U.S. Civil Rights Lawyer

HeadlineOct 01, 2020

Four winners have just been announced for this year’s Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. The honorees are imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Indigenous rights and environmental activist Lottie Cunningham Wren of Nicaragua, Belarusian pro-democracy activist Ales Bialiatski and the U.S. civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

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