Libia Grueso is a social worker and
civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life ...
activist from
Buenaventura, Colombia, fighting for civil rights of
Afro-Colombian communities.
She is also co-founder of the ''Process of Black Communities'' (PCN). She managed to secure more than 24,000 km
2 in territorial rights for the country's black rural communities, and she has been focused on protecting
Colombia's Pacific rainforest. Libia Grueso received the
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ...
in 2004.
[Goldman Environmental Prize]
Libia Grueso
(Retrieved on November 30, 2007)
References
21st-century Colombian women
Colombian environmentalists
Colombian women environmentalists
Civil rights activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
Women civil rights activists
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