Current director of PRIO, Henrik Urdal, has confirmed that the following nominees were also included for this year's prize: Indian social activist Harsh Mander and the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) and Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, Hong Kong's pro-democracy party Demosisto, Serbian activist Nataša Kandić and the Humanitarian Law Center, Syrian-Lebanese activist Rouba Mhaissen, Afghan human rights commissioner Shaharzad Akbar, Sudanese foreign minister Mariam al-Mahdi, and founders of Alt News.[3]