CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred Brownell, 53, is an environmental and human rights lawyer and executive director of Green Advocates (GA), a Liberian NGO that he founded in order to represent communities seeking to protect their environmental and human rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -The winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2019 are: Linda Garcia of US. Ana Colovic Lesoska of North Macedonia. Bayarjargal Agvaantseren of Mongolia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred Brownell is an internationally recognized environmental rights activist and lawyer from Liberia. Brownell has advocated for more than two decades to protect the environment and human rights in West Africa and to empower Liberians and West Africans victimized by resource exploitation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Ecuador Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez led an Indigenous movement to safeguard the ancestral territory of their people from gold mining. Alex Lucitante, 29, and Alexandra Narvaez, 30, led an Indigenous movement to protect their ancestral territory from gold mining.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Goldman Environmental Prize, also called Green Nobel was created in 1989, to dedicated environmental activists, one from each of the world’s six geographic regions i.e. Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South and Central America.