Sierra Leone anti-FGM activist wins German human rights prize
Campaigner Rugiati Turay has won the Theodor Haecker human rights prize for fighting female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.…
Uighur activist Ilham Tohti wins EU’s Sakharov Prize
The shortlist for the EU's top human rights prize this year drew attention to the plight of the Uighur people in China, multi-faceted rights violations in Brazil, and the issue of female…