Award Presentation
The 2017 Right Livelihood Award presentation took place on 1 December 2017 at the Vasa Museum, a long-term partner of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and Scandinavia's most-visited museum. The evening award ceremony for some 300 invited guests was staged next to the grand 17th century ship Vasa. The Right Livelihood Award Laureates share the privilege reserved for Heads of State, Nobel Laureates and other dignitaries to step aboard this historic vessel. With its speeches, music and the opportunity to mingle, the ceremony is both solemn and casual at the same time. It displays what the Right Livelihood Award Laureates have in common: a serious cause and an often incredible sense of humour and joy that they – despite all the hardships they have experienced – never seem to lose. The award ceremony in Stockholm was followed by a political and public programme for Laureates in Berlin, Geneva and Zurich. From 1985-2015, the Right Livelihood Awards were presented in the Swedish Parliament on the invitation of an all-party group of Swedish parliamentarians (SÄRLA – Association for the Right Livelihood Award in the Swedish Parliament).
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2017
Group picture of the 2017 Laureates at the Vasa Museum
Yetnebersh Nigussie
Robert Bilott
Colin Gonsalves
Emin collects Ismayilov's award
Khadija Ismayilova was unable to attend in person due to a travel ban
Yetnebersh Nigussie
2016
Group picture of the 2016 Laureates at the Vasa Museum
Laureate Raed al Saleh from Syria Civil Defence with Right Livelihood Award Chair Monika Griefahn and Founder President Jakob von Uexkull
Right Livelihood Laureate Svetlana Gannushkina receiving her Award
Zeynep Oral and Isıl Oezgentuerk, representing Cumhuryiet, with the diploma
Laureate Mozn Hassan delivering her speech via a video
The 2016 Laureates on the Vasa Ship
Performance during the Ceremony
2015
The 2015 Laureates Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Tony de Brum, Gino Strada and Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Laureate Tony de Brum and his wife with Right Livelihood Award Foundation Founder President Jakob von Uexkull
Right Livelihood Award Foundation Chair Monika Griefahn with Right Livelihood Award Founder President Jakob von Uexkull
Right Livelihood Award Laureate Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera with her diploma
Opening performance
Laureate Sheila Watt-Cloutier with her cousin © Göran Rooth
2014
Laureates' group with Lon Snowden (credit: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Basil Fernando, Alan Rusbridger, Asma Jahangir, and Bill McKibben (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Laureates and Lon Snowden with Co-Chairs Jakob von Uexkull and Monika Griefhan (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Lon Snowden holding his son Edward's Right Livelihood Award Foundation diploma (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Edward Snowden joining the ceremony via video-link (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Performance during the ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Laureates with Co-Chairs Jakob von Uexkull and Monika Griefhan (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Edward Snowden's diploma (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
2013
Paul Walker, Denis Mukwege, Hans R. Herren and Raji Sourani with their Award Diplomas (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Opening Procession Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Press moment during the Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Stina Berge (third from the left), Jakob von Uexkull (fourth from the right), Denis Mukwege (third from the right) and Denis Mukwege's family during the Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Luciatåg (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Hans R. Herren giving his speech (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Dance performance during the Award Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Performance after Denis Mukwege's Acceptance Speech (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
All 2013 Laureates with their Award Diploma's (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Swedish
Parliament (Riksdagen) Second Chamber (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
In the Second Chamber of Riksdagen (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Performance after Denis Mukwege's Acceptance Speech (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
2012
Group pictures of the 2012 Laureates (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Opening procession Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Riksdagen Second Chamber (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Second Chamber Riksdagen (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Performance during Ceremony (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Luciatåg (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
2011
2011 Laureates' group
Riksdagen Second Chamber
Riksdagen Second Chamber
2010
The 2010 Laureates
Performance during the Ceremony
2009
At the press conference
Ceremony
Luciatåg
Margot Wallström speaking
Ceremony
From left to right: Matron Ejigayehu, Annette Bennett, René Ngongo, Jakob v Uexkull, Alyn Ware, David Suzuki
with Margot Wallström to the right
2008
The 2008 Laureates with Jakob von Uexkull
The 2008 Award Ceremony
Procession entering the Chamber
Students from Lilla Akademien - a music school in Stockholm
The 2008 Laureates
The 2008 Laureates
2007
The 2007 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 2007 Award Recipients
The 2007 Award Recipients
Press Conference, Dec 6 2007
The 2007 Award Ceremony
The 2007 Award Ceremony
2002-2006
The 2006 Award Ceremony
The 2002 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 2003 Award Recipients
The 2004 Award Recipients
The 2004 Award Recipients
The 2005 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull (photo Jonas Ekströmer)
The 2005 Award Ceremony
The 2005 Award Recipients (photo Jonas Ekströmer)
The 2005 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 2005 Award Recipients
The 2006 Award Recipients
The 2006 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
1989-2001
The 1995 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1989 Award Recipients
The 1990 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1991 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1992 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1993 Award Recipients
The 1994 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1996 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1997 Award Recipients
The 1998 Award Recipients
The 2000 Award Recipients
The 2001 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
1980-1988
The 1983 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1980 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1982 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1983 Award Ceremony
The 1984 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1985 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1986 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1986 Award Recipients with Jakob von Uexkull
The 1987 Award Recipients
The 1988 Award Recipients