“So everybody told my mum, ‘Oh my god, it would be better if she dies,'” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London. Education was a turning point that changed my blindness into an opportunity,” she said,Now 35 - and a human rights lawyer - Nigussie is among the winners of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel prize. Other laureates this year include Colin Gonsalves, an Indian human rights lawyer, and female journalist Khadija Ismayilova for revealing government corruption in Azerbaijan. The three laureates will share a cash award of 3 million Swedish crowns ($374,000), said the Swedish prize-giving foundation. U.S. lawyer Robert Bilott also received an honorary award for exposing contamination in local water supplies.

Source: Ethiopian News September 26, 2017 09:00 UTC