Lottie Cunningham Wren

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Lottie Cunningham Wren
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Lottie Cunningham Wren in 2021
Born (1959-09-29) September 29, 1959 (age 65)
Bilwaskarma, Nicaragua [1]
OccupationIndigenous rights lawyer
Organization(s)Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
Awards Right Livelihood Award (2020)
Website cejudhcan.wixsite.com/cejudhcan

Lottie Cunningham Wren (born 1959) is a Miskito Nicaraguan lawyer, environmentalist, and Indigenous rights activist from Nicaragua. [1]

Cunningham was born on September 29, 1959, in the village of Bilwaskarma, located on the Rio Coco, Nicaragua. [1]

Cunningham founded the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. [2] In 2019 she received the Paul K. Feyerabend Award, [3] and in 2020 she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," for her work defending the rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples to their land. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lottie Cunningham Wren". Right Livelihood. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Diez, Georg (December 3, 2020). "Nicaragua's Indigenous People face a humanitarian crisis". Fair Planet. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  3. ↑ https://www.pkfeyerabend.org/en/2019/10/01/english-lottie-cunningham-2019-paul-k-feyerabend-award/
  4. ↑ "Lottie Cunningham Wren (Nicaragua)". The Right Livelihood Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-10.


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