This award will recognise campaigners based outside of the UK in the global South, working to achieve social or environmental justice in their home countries. This award will target campaigners living in the lowest 52 countries in the world as defined by the United Nations Human Development Index.
Campaign for older people's rights in Cameroon, Community Development Volunteers for Technical Assistance
Francis is Director at the Community Development Volunteers for Technical Assistance (CDVTA Cameroon) delivering a much needed advocacy campaign to enable older people to demand and secure their constitutional rights. He is fighting discrimination and marginalisation, promoting positive messages on ageing and working towards securing high quality welfare services in the remote village areas of Cameroon. The campaign aims to influence policies and decision makers to recognise the rights of older people.
Finalists
Shanti Behera
Prison Reform, The Martin Luther King Centre for Democracy and Human Rights
Shanti has been campaigning for the rights of access to information and health for prisoners. He is especially concerned about prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners and believes strongly that they should be given their basic human rights. The campaign goal is to influence Indian authorities to work towards international best practices.
Tulasa Lata Amatya
End Gender Discrimination in Nepal, Community Action Centre - Nepal
Tulasa has been campaigning through awareness raising and lobbying at a local and national level in Nepal. The campaign advocates for the rights of women and against gender discrimination. Her work supports communities to empower women and encourage them to raise their voices to address all issues concerning them and to campaign against discriminatory laws. In the long term the campaign aims to free women from gender discrimination at home, at work, in the community and the political arena in Nepal.
Musenge Musomali
Paediatric HIV/Aids care, treatment and support, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Musenge has been campaigning to strengthen community understanding of HIV/AIDS and increase awareness of the care and the treatment options available in government institutions across Zambia. Her campaign is designed to dispel myths on paediatric treatment through education on drugs, their availability and their access points from government clinics. The campaign also aims to address the issues that children face as a consequence of HIV/AIDS and to identify ways on how to deal with them.
