...[UNESCO] should reject a new bid to honor Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea..., with a prize in his name, a group of nine human rights organizations said today. The executive board of...UNESCO...will consider a proposal for a $3 million UNESCO life sciences prize, to be funded by the “Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Foundation for the Preservation of Life.” The prize was suspended last year after an outcry from concerned Equatoguineans, human rights groups, anti-corruption campaigners, and prominent literary, scientific, and cultural figures...“UNESCO should not honor President Obiang,” said Tutu Alicante, executive director of EG Justice...“If he wishes to fund science and education around the world, he should start with his own country, where many still lack basic services such as electricity and clean water..." ...The 2010 US State Department human rights report...noted that “[t]he president and members of his inner circle continued to amass personal profits from the [country's] oil windfall.”