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Article

24 Apr 2006

Author:
Environment News Service (ENS)

Six Grassroots Environmentalists Win $125,000 Goldman Prizes

Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, 36, Liberia: Siakor exposed evidence that former Liberia President Charles Taylor...entered into secret agreements with a favored lumber company... The company’s private militia committed human rights abuses including rape, beatings and destruction of entire villages... Anne Kajir, 32, Papua New Guinea...is the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies’ large-scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them... A current case alleges that the PNG Forest Authority, the state, and the lead logging company, Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia, repeatedly violated federal law...[and] includes villagers’ personal accounts of...having to sign documents at gunpoint and physical abuse and humiliation.