2008 Shortlist - Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award

U Gambira (Award recipient)
U Gambira is the pseudonym of the leader of the monks of the All-Burma Monks Alliance which organized and spearheaded the Nationwide protests.

Lydia Cacho
An activist and veteran journalist who committed herself to exposing the plight of abused and exploited women and children in Mexico.

HRCP
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is an independent body of Lawyers and activists founded to promote the human rights of the Pakistani people.

Yetaai
Yetaai is a Chinese blogger who took China telecom to court for blocking his website; It set an extraordinary precedent just to be accepted as a case as the authorities in china have always denied any censorship of the internet.