Indigenous-led Amazon Frontlines to receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize
By Chris Herlinger
National Catholic Reporter
August 14, 2024
Amazon Frontlines, an Indigenous-led organization committed to conservation and the protection of land rights and biodiversity in the Amazon region, will receive this year's Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
In announcing the honor — the world's largest annual humanitarian prize — on Aug. 13, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation noted that Amazon Frontlines is “the first organization of Indigenous and Western human rights and climate activists to receive the Prize.”