The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced that Amazon Frontlines—a nonprofit that supports Indigenous peoples in defending their rights to land and their way of life, preserving biodiversity in the Amazon, and protecting the environment—has been selected as the 2024 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize recipient. Amazon Frontlines is the first organization that promotes a scalable model of Indigenous-led grassroots conservation to receive the Prize. The world’s largest annual humanitarian award, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize is presented to a nonprofit organization judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering. Each year, the Hilton Foundation reviews nomination submissions from nonprofits throughout the world, and an independent, international panel of distinguished jurors makes the final selection after a rigorous vetting process. The following individuals served on the 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize jury: The Right Honourable Helen Clark; Leymah Gbowee; Steven M. Hilton; Sister Joyce Meyer, PBVM; Her Majesty Queen Noor; TAKREEM Laureate Zainab Salbi; Ann M. Veneman; and Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, states: “The Jury’s selection of Amazon Frontlines to receive the 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize highlights the critical role Indigenous communities have in developing policies to protect the environment. For more than a decade, Amazon Frontlines has worked hand-in-hand with Indigenous leaders to develop proven, scalable and sustainable models of locally led conservation—approaches that are vital to protecting the Amazon and therefore our entire planet.” Zainab Salbi , at the age of 23, founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to helping women survivors of wars rebuild their lives. Under her leadership as the organization’s CEO (1993-2011), the organization grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to more than 400,000 women in 8 conflict areas leading to a distribution of more than $100 million dollars in aid and loans, and it has impacted more than 1.7 million family members. Salbi is the author of the national bestseller “Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam” (with Laurie Becklund), “The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope”, and “If You Knew Me, You Would Care.” In 2015, she launched the Nida’a Show, a talk show dedicated to inspiring women in the Arab world, where it airs in 22 countries with TLC Arabia.

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