NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (Reuter) - The Reebok Foundation on Tuesday honoured four young human rights activists from the United States, Rwanda, Mexico and Tibet for leadership roles in their countries.

The annual Human Rights Award recognises activists under 30 years old who have significantly improved the human rights conditions of people in their communities.

The recipients were:

-- Angela Brown, 30, from Georgia, for environmental work in southern United States.

-- Richard Nsanzabaganwa, 26, from Rwanda, working to bring justice for victims of the 1994 Rwandan massacres of half a million people.

-- Miguel Angel de los Cruz, 30, a Mexican attorney based in Chiapas who represents indigenous people.

-- Ven. Phuntsok Nyidron, 27, a Tibetan Buddhist nun jailed for 17 years after asserting free speech rights in a demonstration against Chinese occupation of Tibet.

In accepting his award, Nsanzobaganwa, a Rwandan national of Tutsi ethnic origin who survived the massacre, said he asks for nothing for himself, just that the world think about his people.

"I can only say I have been saved by God. I survived not to live but to give life," he said.

Each honouree received $25,000 from The Reebok Foundation to be distributed to a human rights group of their choice.