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Guest House--a Michigan-based treatment center for Catholic clergy and religious--and the National Catholic Council on Alcoholism and Related Drug Problems has honored Dominican Sr. Maurice Doody for her work with [...]

Flora MacDonald, one-time Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate, received the 2006 Eve Award for Advancing Women in Politics at a Toronto ceremony in March. The former secretary of state for [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Child rights activist Craig Kielburger was recently awarded the 2006 World Children's Prize, commonly referred to as the 'Children's Nobel Prize.' The award-winning author and three-time nominee [...]

A staff worker for Caritas Hong Kong who was the lead person in international church efforts to end starvation in North Korea, Kathi Zellweger, has received the Bishop Tji Hak-soon [...]

SYLVIA WILSON IS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THE NELSON area of Whitefield, an archetypical Lancashire mill town fallen on hard times. She is also the chairwoman of Reclaim Action, a [...]

The Des Moines Business Record and Drake University will honor six activists in a ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Sheslow Auditorium on the Drake Campus. Winners of [...]

Fighting nuclear waste disposal in Kazakhstan Biologist Kaisha Atakhanova was chosen as the most influential and courageous activist in Asia this year. A longtime partner of the Center for Safe […]

The convicted murderer who co-founded the notorious L.A. Crips street gang has received an award for his good deeds on death row, complete with a letter from President George W. [...]

Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor, Africa's leading economic and social reformer, was honored at a huge downtown Washington hotel reception. The event marked the return of African leaders to the [...]

Bone marrow activist Rocky Twyman was honored in the Maryland capital by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in the governor's office and later at a hotel [...]

SOA Watch, the peace organization that has sought for 14 years to close down a notorious U.S. Army school for Latin American military officers, has been awarded the 21st International [...]

* BRITISH KNIGHTS: Former South African President Nelson Mandela is a Knight of St. John after a ceremony in St. James's Palace, London. Mandela, 86, received an eight-pointed cross as [...]

Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH-ree mah-DHEYE), a woman from Kenya who started an environmental movement in Africa, and who has campaigned for women's rights and greater democracy, has been awarded the 2004 […]

* Swami Agnivesh, a leading Hindu social reformer, and Asgar Ali Engineer, a prominent Muslim scholar and activist, "for their strong commitment to social justice and cooperation over many years […]

Readers can learn more about Basil Mahayni, the winner of the Central Iowa Activist Award for Student Activism, next week in Cityview, our sister publication, but the young man just [...]

Ako Abdul-Samad was speechless the other day when Whispers caught up with him. He'd just learned that he's one of 10 Americans who will receive National Caring Awards in November [...]

On a smaller scale, but for the same reasons, Cityview and Drake University will honor Abdul-Samad with the Central Iowa Activist Award for Education and Youth Advocacy for his work [...]

Abe Bonowitz has been named 'Abolitionist of the Year' by the anti-death penalty group, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Bonowitz is the director of Citizens United for [...]

Maryknoll Fr. Roy L. Bourgeois received the Eileen Egan National Peacemaker Award from the metro New York chapter of Pax Christi June 5 for leading the effort to close the […]

May 1, 1950-- * Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen (1949), her volume of poetry, on this day. Born in Topeka, KS, [...]

Cityview, our sister publication, and Drake University are honoring six local activists Oct. 7, an evening that promises to be a call to action to help solve perplexing problems in [...]

The following ten students and student groups are being honored for their creative works that promote an understanding of cultural diversity and ecological sensitivity. Each winner of the tenth annual […]

Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union, is the winner of the 2002 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. This prize, which carries with it a [...]

Craig Cox briefly profiles activist Diane Wilson, who has staged a hunger strike to protest chemical polluters in Texas.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (2nd r), president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and daughter of the late president John F. Kennedy, applauds this year's recipients of the John F. [...]

ACTOR-ACTIVIST MIKE FARRELL was invited to the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Public Leadership at Harvard where he was presented the Gleitsman Foundation's Citizen Award -- $50,000. [...]

On Oct. 4 the jury for 'The Right Livelihood Award,' more popularly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize,' announced that among this year's award recipients are Gush Shalom and Uri [...]

The New Statesman New Media Awards will provide a showcase for the best in on-line activism and political debate. Bill Thompson, who developed the Nexus website and was once head [...]