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• Renato Areiza & Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia

• Rye Barcott & Carolina for Kibera, a group that promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in the disadvantaged Nairobi area of Kibera through sports, young women's empowerment, and community development

• Latin American populist leaders Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales

• Coptic Orphans, a "trailblazer in Egypt for the rights of vulnerable children"

• Women’s and indigenous peoples’ human rights activist Monica Alemán Cunningham

• Abu Ghraib whistleblower Joe Darby

• Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day and activist to end violence against women

• Indian freelance journalist Sachin Kumar Jain

• Angelina Jolie

• Architect William McDonough and chemist Dr. Michael Braungart: "two leaders in a growing movement to transform the relationship between commerce and nature"

• Michele Merkel, for advocating for effective enforcement of environmental laws

• 24-year-old Nigerian Seun Osewa, who created nairaland.com, a "forum for free speech on all issues of the facts of life"

• Robert Pierson and farmtocity.org, for "encouraging fresh, local food use in its local community and maintaining local family farms and foodways"

• Igballe Rogova, a leading figure of the women’s movement in Kosova and an internationally renowned women’s rights advocate

• The founders of Skype, for "helping connect people from all around the world"

• Tarun Tejpal & Tehelka.com, India's Peoples Paper

• Editor, writer, public speaker, self-taught geographer, and sometime photographer Jonathan B. Tourtellot

• "Unreasonable Woman" Diane Wilson

• Young people across the world, for a year in which "young people everywhere stood up, shouted, and shook the world."

• Nobel Peace Prize winner and microcredit founder Muhammad Yunus

 Who else should be recognized?

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