in democracy movement will also be honored the on the outs he founded the human rights organization vyas now some 25 years ago i let's be. honest. now will receive the prize for their promotion of human rights and democracy and alexander lukashenko groups which can rightfully be called europe's last dictatorship. seize the. iranian human rights lawyer nothing and so today will also receive the award she's currently serving a 38 year jail sentence the 4th award recipient will be lottie cunningham rent of nicaragua and advocate for the rights of indigenous people in her country the right mike lee hood award ceremony will take place in stockholm on december 3rd thing. and joining us now is a lot a kind of a moran one of the 4 recipients of the right livelihood award she is committed to environmental protection and in the genus people in the a very warm welcome and congratulations mrs cunningham what does this award mean for you. well firstly i would like the will and the billy save my grant that to receive this hour i did and i was they express my sincere directive to the group when they wr

a nonviolent compassion for democratic freedoms in the country he founded the human rights center vyas not to provide support for political prisoners and has complained for an end to capital punishment his colleague and fellow activist constantine style i do with the same organization joins me now from minsk concert in how did your colleague react to the news of being awarded the alternative nobel prize. hello of course he was very happy to hear of this tremendous news. because it's really means a lot of to us to our leader lists and food the team of us knights. huge team of $100.00 activists across fellows. but it's also quite sad. because when human rights defenders are praised that means that something is broken in the country and. so the situation of those is so so bad that. of course we have happy to hear the good signals coming from europe from. the right livelihood palmed ation means a lot to us but as i said it's. quite sad because. it means that we still have a lot of things to do and that human rights are a trace can. of a lot of opposition members and demonstrators have been

sustainability equality and peace one of this year's awards is a joint honor for the human rise center vyas knighted stammen. who complains for freedom and democracy in the other roosts another one as iranian human rights lawyer nazarene so today she is currently in prison herself and was jailed after defending women arrested for protesting against iran's compulsory scofflaw another prize winner is lucky wren lawyer from the miss quito indigenous group she defends the rights of indigenous people in nicaragua to their land and resources at another one is bryan stevenson. leading us civil rights lawyer he has dedicated his life to the pursuit of racial equality and strives to challenge the legacy of institutional racism in the united states meanwhile the executive director of the right livelihood award foundation excludes that the prize winners were selected to champion democracy which he said is under threat this year's laureates are united in their fight for equality democracy justice and freedom defying unjust legal systems and dictatorial regimes they successfully strengthen human rights