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International Jury Selects Amazon Frontlines to Receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced that Amazon Frontlines—a nonprofit that supports Indigenous people in defending their rights to land and their way of life, preserving biodiversity in the Amazon, and protecting the environment—has been selected as the 2024 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize recipient. Amazon Frontlines is the first organization of Indigenous and Western human rights and climate activists to receive the Prize. The world’...

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