OSLO (Reuters) – A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Wednesday to the Emergency Response Rooms, a Sudanese network of community groups providing aid, for “their courageous work to preserve the most fundamental human right – the right to life”.

Four past laureates of the Rafto prize – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, East Timor’s Jose Ramos-Horta, South Korea’s Kim Dae-jung and Iran’s Shirin Ebadi – went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.