Awards and Honors
- Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, 2004 from Women's eNews in their annual 21 Leaders for the 21st century awards,
2009 - she received 50 000 euro, as a special prize founded by Lech Walesa, legendary leader of polish "Solidarity" and laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 1983
She also received a Dutch human rights prize, the Human Rights Defenders Tulip, on November 9, 2009.
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