Alessandra Korap, an indigenous lady from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work preventing in opposition to unlawful mining and large-scale tasks geared toward facilitating soybean exports within the Tapajos River Basin. Korap and different Munduruku ladies took up the duty of defending their folks, overturning the historically all-male…
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Nobel prize winner Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in Belarus
Quick Information The fees in opposition to Bialiatski, Belarus’ prime human rights advocate, and his colleagues had been related to Viasna’s provision of cash to political prisoners and serving to pay their authorized charges. Ales Bialiatski was arrested and jailed after huge protests over a 2020 election (AFP Archive) A Belarusian courtroom has sentenced Ales…