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Global Focus VII Premieres on PBS
Global Focus VII, a 30-minute documentary television program featuring the 2010 Goldman Prize recipients, will begin its broadcast run on San Francisco Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED this coming week before it airs throughout the country on other PBS stations. The program airs on November 22 and again on November 26 at 7:30pm. Be sure…
Read moreCNN's "African Voices" profiles Feliciano dos Santos
Feliciano dos Santos (Mozambique, 2008) is the subject of the most recent African Voices program on CNN International. In the piece, Santos discusses his successful music career with his band, Massukos, and his work in helping communities in the poorest region of Mozambique with sanitation and infrastructure projects. Click the image above to watch the…
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Indigenous Colombian Prize winner visits the US to build support for Amazon protection
Gilberto Cobaría, President of the Association of the U’Wa (L) and Berito Kuwaru’wa Cobaría, 1998 Goldman Prize winner (R) outside of the Goldman Prize offices in San Francisco Goldman Prize winner Berito Kuwaru’wa Cobaría, an U’Wa spiritual elder, visited the Prize offices in San Francisco today to update us on their recent victories and challenges…
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Lynn Henning makes Oprah's 2010 Power List
Lynn Henning (USA, 2010) was included in O Magazine’s 2010 Power List, an honor she shares with veteran journalist Diane Sawyer, film star Julia Roberts, fashion designer Vera Wang, and other important women making a difference or emerging as leaders in their fields. Henning was interviewed by Erin Brockovich for the magazine, which hits newsstands…
Read moreMicrosoft implicated in Russian crackdown on political dissent
In a New York Times investigative report released yesterday, Microsoft was implicated in the recent increase in Russian police seizures of computers and documents from civil society groups on grounds of suspected software piracy. Marina Rikhvanova’s (Russia, 2008) organization, Baikal Environmental Wave, was featured prominently in the article, which provided insight into the January police…
Read moreBangladesh Supreme Court Sides with Rizwana Hasan
Despite intense objection by shipbreaking yard owners, the Supreme Court once again asserted its position requiring all ships coming to Bangladesh for dismantling to be pre-cleaned of all toxic materials prior to entering Bangladesh’s waters. Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh, 2009) and her organization, BELA, have led this and other legal cases advocating for the health and…
Read moreMore recent coverage of recipients in the field
Luis Yanza (Ecuador, 2008) traveled to the Gulf Coast with a delegation of indigenous leaders to advise communities affected by the BP oil spill disaster. July 22, 2010 Advice for fighting oil companies PRI’s The World As part of the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week programming, Discovery News aired an interview with Randall Arauz (Costa Rica,…
Read moreGoldman Prize recipients in the news
Here’s a sampling of some of the major news stories and features that have come out recently about Prize winners from around the world. July 14, 2010 Saving one of Europe’s treasures CNN July 12, 2010 Hidden shame of ship-breaking industry CNN July 12, 2010 Fighting the CAFOs American Public Media’s The Story July 6,…
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Eight People Convicted on Criminal Charges for 1984 Bhopal Disaster
More than 25 years after the world’s worst industrial chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, eight people have been convicted on criminal charges and now face 2-year prison terms and fines. This verdict is the first related to the disaster to come from the notoriously slow Indian justice system. Since…
Read more2008 recipient Feliciano dos Santos honored as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Today, National Geographic announced the names of the fourteen 2010 Emerging Explorers, including 2008 Goldman Prize recipient from Mozambique, Felicano dos Santos. The Emerging Explorers program “recognizes and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers making a significant contribution to world knowledge through exploration.” Feliciano dos Santos won the Goldman Prize for…
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