EGYPTIAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS activist Mozn Hassan and the Nazra for Feminist Studies are amongst the four winners of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, sometimes known as the “Alternative Nobel.” Hassan and Nazra share the prize of USD 350k with Syria’s White Helmets (Syria Civil Defense group), Russian activist Svetlana Gannushkina, and Turkish independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, Bloomberg report. “Hassan and her feminist organization were honored ‘for asserting the equality and rights of women in circumstances where they are subject to ongoing violence, abuse and discrimination.’ The citation said the group has documented human rights violations and coordinated the response to [redacted] assaults on women participating in public protests during and after the uprising of 2011.”