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Loujain Al-Hathloul wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
The Council of Europe has given its prestigious annual human rights award to the Saudi Arabian women s rights activist.
Women s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released last month after nearly three years in prison
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Monday awarded its human rights prize to Saudi Arabian activist Loujain Al-Hathloul.
The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award has been awarded annually since 2013 to individuals or institutions for an extraordinary contribution to the defense of human rights.
The prize is named after Vaclav Havel, the human rights activist and president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, and is endowed with €60,000 ($72,000).
Václav Havel human rights prize to celebrate international women s rights activists
A Saudi women s rights activist, a group of Buddhist nuns in Nepal, and a Congolese human rights activist have all been nominated.
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This year s Václav Havel Human Rights Award has shortlisted three female finalists, as the panel, chaired by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rik Daems, focused on human rights in its selection.
The panel nominated Saudi women s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, a group of young Buddhist nuns from a monastery in Nepal and Julienne Lusenge, who documents cases of wartime sexual violence in the Congo.