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Memorial representative murdered |  |
Memorial's representative to Chechnya, Natalya Estemirova, was killed on Wednesday, July 15th. Estemirova was a leading human rights defender working in the North Caucasus region.
Estemirova's organisation Memorial is a 2004 Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation strongly condemns the killing. Our thoughts are with Memorial, Estemirova's family and friends. We appeal to the Russian government to bring the perpetrators of this horrific act to justice. It cannot be that those who kill Russia's bravest citizens should go unpunished.
 More about Memorial on our website
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More about Estemirova and the killing at Amnesty International
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The New Scientist on Janos Vargha | |
The New Scientist's story about Janos Vargha titled "The biologist who broke the Berlin Wall" makes an interesting read not only for those who vividly remember the epoch.
In 1985, Duna Kör and its founder Janos Vargha received the Right Livelihood Award ”…for working under unusually difficult circumstances to preserve the river Danube, a vital part of Hungary's environment.”
The article links Janos Vargha's work and achievements to the reformist movement in Hungary. It quotes Vargha saying:
"To oppose the state directly was still difficult. Opposing the dam was less dangerous, but it was still a defiance of the state."
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Read the article
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2009-07-03 High Court stays canal work of Narmada dams. The Hindu, India.
2009-06-24 Landless Workers Freed in Brazil After Torture and Over a Month in Jail. Brazzil Magazine, USA.
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Date set for 30th Anniversary Conference | |
The date for the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Right Livelihood Award has now been set: The Laureates will convene in Bonn from September 15th to 18th, 2010.
