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2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureates Announced
media 24/09/2018
Wangari Maathai
laureates 19/04/2018
Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
laureates
Vandana Shiva
laureates
Tony de Brum & the People of the Marshall Islands
laureates
The Chipko Movement
laureates
Tony Clarke
laureates
Tewolde Berhan
laureates
Survival
laureates
Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
laureates
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
laureates
Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
laureates
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sarawak (SAM)
laureates
Rosalie Bertell
laureates
Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
laureates
Raúl Montenegro
laureates
René Ngongo
laureates
Robert Bilott
laureates
Percy and Louise Schmeiser
laureates
Pat Mooney
laureates
Nicanor Perlas
laureates
Nnimmo Bassey
laureates
Michael Succow
laureates
Medha Patkar and Baba Amte / Narmada Bachao Andolan
laureates
Melaku Worede
laureates
Martin Green
laureates
Maude Barlow
laureates
Lokayan
laureates
Leonardo Boff
laureates
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
laureates
Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
laureates
José Lutzenberger
laureates
Janos Vargha / Duna Kör
laureates
Jinzaburo Takagi
laureates
Hermann Scheer
laureates
High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the people of Belau
laureates
Huang Ming
laureates
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
laureates
Herman Daly
laureates
Hayrettin Karaca
laureates
Grameen Shakti
laureates
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
laureates
Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
laureates
GRAIN
laureates
Francisco Toledo
laureates
Erwin Kräutler
laureates
Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
laureates
Erik Dammann / The Future in Our Hands
laureates
Edward Goldsmith
laureates
David Suzuki
laureates
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
laureates
Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
laureates
Christopher Weeramantry
laureates
Cindy Duehring
laureates
Cary Fowler
laureates
Birsel Lemke
laureates
Bill Mollison
laureates
Bill McKibben / 350.org
laureates
Bianca Jagger
laureates
Amory and Hunter Lovins
laureates
Alice Tepper Marlin
laureates
Alice Stewart
laureates
Wangari Maathai
laureates
Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
laureates
Vandana Shiva
laureates
Tony Clarke
laureates
Tony de Brum & la population des Iles Marshall
laureates
Tewolde Berhan
laureates
The Chipko Movement
laureates
Survival
laureates
Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
laureates
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
laureates
Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
laureates
Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
laureates
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sarawak (SAM)
laureates
Rosalie Bertell
laureates
Raúl Montenegro
laureates
René Ngongo
laureates
Robert Bilott
laureates
Percy and Louise Schmeiser
laureates
Pat Mooney
laureates
Nicanor Perlas
laureates
Nnimmo Bassey
laureates
Melaku Worede
laureates
Michael Succow
laureates
Maude Barlow
laureates
Medha Patkar and Baba Amte / Narmada Bachao Andolan
laureates
Martin Green
laureates
Lokayan
laureates
Leonardo Boff
laureates
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
laureates
Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
laureates
José Lutzenberger
laureates
Janos Vargha / Duna Kör
laureates
Jinzaburo Takagi
laureates
High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the people of Belau
laureates
Hermann Scheer
laureates
Huang Ming
laureates
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
laureates
Herman Daly
laureates
Hayrettin Karaca
laureates
Grameen Shakti
laureates
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
laureates
Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
laureates
GRAIN
laureates
Francisco Toledo
laureates
Erwin Kräutler
laureates
Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
laureates
Erik Dammann / The Future in Our Hands
laureates
Edward Goldsmith
laureates
David Suzuki
laureates
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
laureates
Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
laureates
Christopher Weeramantry
laureates
Cindy Duehring
laureates
Cary Fowler
laureates
Birsel Lemke
laureates
Bianca Jagger
laureates
Bill McKibben / 350.org
laureates
Bill Mollison
laureates
Amory and Hunter Lovins
laureates
Alice Tepper Marlin
laureates
Alice Stewart
laureates
Celebrate World Day of Social Justice by proposing an exemplary change maker for the 2018 Right Livelihood Award
media 20/02/2018
2017 Right Livelihood Award Laureates Create Real Change for Millions of People
media 01/12/2017
Robert Bilott
laureates 15/11/2017
Alice Tepper Marlin
laureates
Hermann Scheer
laureates
Herman Daly
laureates
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
laureates
Hayrettin Karaca
laureates
Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
laureates
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
laureates
Grameen Shakti
laureates
GRAIN
laureates
Francisco Toledo
laureates
Erwin Kräutler
laureates
Erik Dammann / The Future in Our Hands
laureates
Edward Goldsmith
laureates
David Suzuki
laureates
Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
laureates
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
laureates
Cary Fowler
laureates
Christopher Weeramantry
laureates
Cindy Duehring
laureates
Birsel Lemke
laureates
Bill Mollison
laureates
Bill McKibben / 350.org
laureates
Bianca Jagger
laureates
Nnimmo Bassey
laureates
Nicanor Perlas
laureates
Michael Succow
laureates
Melaku Worede
laureates
Medha Patkar and Baba Amte / Narmada Bachao Andolan
laureates
Maude Barlow
laureates
Martin Green
laureates
Lokayan
laureates
Leonardo Boff
laureates
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
laureates
Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
laureates
José Lutzenberger
laureates
Huang Ming
laureates
Janos Vargha / Duna Kör
laureates
Jinzaburo Takagi
laureates
Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
laureates
Wangari Maathai
laureates
Vandana Shiva
laureates
Tony de Brum & the People of the Marshall Islands
laureates
Tony Clarke
laureates
The Chipko Movement
laureates
Tewolde Berhan
laureates
Survival
laureates
Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
laureates
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
laureates
Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
laureates
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sarawak (SAM)
laureates
Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
laureates
Rosalie Bertell
laureates
Robert Bilott
laureates
René Ngongo
laureates
Raúl Montenegro
laureates
Percy and Louise Schmeiser
laureates
Pat Mooney
laureates
Robert Bilott
laureates 26/09/2017
Amory and Hunter Lovins
laureates 15/09/2017
Alice Stewart
laureates
Released from Jail, ‘Alternative Nobel’ Medha Patkar Still Faces Charges of Kidnapping in India’s Dam Protest
media 25/08/2017
The World Loses Climate and Nuclear Disarmament Champion Tony de Brum
media 22/08/2017
‘Alternative Nobel’ Laureate Begins Hunger Strike Against India’s Mega Dam Evictions
media 27/07/2017
Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
laureates 13/07/2017
Bill Mollison
laureates
Erik Dammann / The Future in Our Hands
laureates
High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the people of Belau
laureates
Amory and Hunter Lovins
laureates
Wangari Maathai
laureates
Cary Fowler
laureates
Janos Vargha / Duna Kör
laureates
Lokayan
laureates
Pat Mooney
laureates
Alice Stewart
laureates
Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
laureates
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
laureates
Rosalie Bertell
laureates
The Chipko Movement
laureates
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sarawak (SAM)
laureates
José Lutzenberger
laureates
Survival
laureates
Melaku Worede
laureates
Alice Tepper Marlin
laureates
Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
laureates
Medha Patkar and Baba Amte / Narmada Bachao Andolan
laureates
Edward Goldsmith
laureates
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
laureates
Vandana Shiva
laureates
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
laureates
Herman Daly
laureates
Michael Succow
laureates
Jinzaburo Takagi
laureates
Cindy Duehring
laureates
Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
laureates
Hermann Scheer
laureates
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
laureates
Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
laureates
Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
laureates
Tewolde Berhan
laureates
Birsel Lemke
laureates
Leonardo Boff
laureates
Martin Green
laureates
Nicanor Perlas
laureates
Raúl Montenegro
laureates
Bianca Jagger
laureates
Tony Clarke
laureates
Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
laureates
Maude Barlow
laureates
Francisco Toledo
laureates
Percy and Louise Schmeiser
laureates
Grameen Shakti
laureates
Christopher Weeramantry
laureates
René Ngongo
laureates
David Suzuki
laureates
Nnimmo Bassey
laureates
Erwin Kräutler
laureates
Huang Ming
laureates
GRAIN
laureates
Hayrettin Karaca
laureates
Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
laureates
Bill McKibben / 350.org
laureates
Tony de Brum & la population des Iles Marshall
laureates
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
laureates
‘Alternative Nobel’ and World Future Council Mourn Egypt’s Sustainable Development Trailblazer
post 15/06/2017
Investigate UK’s Criminal Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes, Demand ‘Alternative Nobel’ Laureates
media 05/12/2016
Tackling Zika, Naturally
media 22/07/2016
The Chernobyl Secret Protocols: Lies in the Aftermath of Disaster
media 26/04/2016
Laureates petition against impunity following the murder of activist Berta Caceres
media 09/03/2016
Laureate Leads Historic Nuclear Disarmament Hearings at ICJ
media 07/03/2016
Alternative Nobel Laureates Pool Expertise to Make Nepal Green
media 22/02/2016
One Month Left Until 1 March Nomination Deadline
media 02/02/2016
Laureates Hail Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change
media 16/12/2015
Award Ceremony: 2015 Laureates call for climate leadership and putting an end to war and discrimination
media 30/11/2015
Media opportunity: Austrian pop artist and worldwide LGBTI icon Conchita Wurst will meet with 2015 Laureate Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera in Stockholm
media 23/11/2015
RLA 2015 Laureates announced
media 01/10/2015
Upcoming announcement of the 2015 Laureates
media 10/09/2015
Tony de Brum & the People of the Marshall Islands
laureates 23/08/2015
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
laureates
Los gobernantes hacen cada da menos caso a las demandas de los ciudadanos
media 14/07/2015
Interview with Leonardo Boff about the Papal Encyclical on climate change
media 23/06/2015
LUCSUS report on global health and climate change published
media 19/05/2015
Parliament seminars in Stockholm
media 18/05/2015
Laureates decry Golden Rice and GM Bananas as “false miracles”
media 07/04/2015
The Guardian launches new series on climate change
media 16/03/2015
Right Livelihood Laureates petition the Federal Government of Nigeria over Ogoni environment clean-up
media 11/03/2015
Regional Conference close in Mumbai
media 07/03/2015
McKibben to hold second Right Livelihood lecture at Santa Cruz
media 24/02/2015
Regional Conference in Mumbai Announced
media 17/02/2015
International Energy Advisory Council launched
media 26/01/2015
Founder of Lokayan (RLA 1985) dies at age 86
media 21/01/2015
RLA Laureates on the UN climate talks in Lima
media 17/12/2014
The impact of the 2014 Right Livelihood Awards
media 28/11/2014
Laureates’ reactions to Right Livelihood Awards: “We have something to protect”
media 25/09/2014
2014 Laureates announced
media 24/09/2014
Bill McKibben / 350.org
laureates 23/08/2014
Right Livelihood Award Foundation releases new documentary about Nnimmo Bassey
media 15/08/2014
Three RLA Laureates ask Pope Francis to take a stance against GMOs
media 13/08/2014
US icon and first Right Livelihood Award Recipient Stephen Gaskin passes away
media 02/07/2014
Global experts call on Nigerian and Congolese governments to clean up oil spills and cancel exploration permits in Virunga National Park
media 26/06/2014
Global experts call on African Union Governments to implement Ecological Organic Agriculture in Africa
media
Father Gerard Pantin (Founder of SERVOL) passes away
media 24/06/2014
Zurich to become a blue community
media 13/06/2014
Juan Pablo Orrego fosters environmental victory in Chile
media 11/06/2014
Regional Conference Egypt
media 02/06/2014
First Right Livelihood Lecture at RLC Santa Cruz campus
media 24/04/2014
Paul Walker at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony honouring OPCW
media 11/12/2013
Award Ceremony
media 02/12/2013
Right Livelihood College extends its reach to Nigeria and North America
media 22/11/2013
Upcoming: Award ceremony and programme
media 21/11/2013
Right Livelihood Laureates and members of World Future Council demand immediate release of Greenpeace activists
media 10/11/2013
Right Livelihood Laureates and members World Future Council demand immediate release of Greenpeace activits
media 08/11/2013
Vandana Shiva supports protests against Monsanto
media 30/10/2013
OPCW “great choice” for Nobel Peace Prize
media 11/10/2013
Right Livelihood College Campus debuts in Nigeria
media 08/10/2013
Announcement Laureates 2013
media 26/09/2013
32 Laureates sign petition against Brazilian – Japanese nuclear agreement
media 12/09/2013
Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
laureates 23/08/2013
Laureates condemn nuclear power expansion plans
media 16/07/2013
Global coalition warns against nuclear power expansion plans
media
Mycle Schneider presents World Nuclear Industry Status Report
media 11/07/2013
India rejects Monsanto’s plant patent
media 06/07/2013
Regional Conference of Latin American Laureates
media 01/07/2013
Global shock over World Food Prize to GMO executives
media 27/06/2013
World Food Prize Statement
media
Regional Conference of Latin American Laureates in Bogota
media 26/06/2013
Nuclear report incites wake up call in Korea Times
media 24/06/2013
Ecuador rejected ASO’s offer to co-host the 2014 Dakar Rally
media 20/05/2013
Robert Jungk 100
media 03/05/2013
Laureates sign petition directed to government of Peru
media 24/04/2013
Reports from 3rd and 4th day of solidarity visit in Brazil
media 05/04/2013
Reports from solidarity visit in Brazil
media 03/04/2013
Two Laureates speak out against nuclear reactor in Northern Argentina
media 17/03/2013
Two Laureates speak out against nuclear reactor in Northern Argentina
media 13/03/2013
Success for Survival International as gas giant backtracks
media 15/02/2013
Dutch Court Ruling Against Shell
media 31/01/2013
Calls for investigation of Dakar Rally
media 25/01/2013
Laureates’ statements and use of prize money
media 06/12/2012
Karaca’s court trial
media 20/11/2012
Turkish Laureate freed
media
Turkish Laureate on Trial
media 14/11/2012
Medha Patkar arrested
media 06/11/2012
Calling for Medha Patkar to be freed
media
Announcement of the 2012 Laureates
media 27/09/2012
Upcoming Award Announcement
media 18/09/2012
Hayrettin Karaca
laureates 23/08/2012
Chico Whitaker warns of ‘nuclear two class society’
media 17/08/2012
Chico Whitaker warning
media 16/08/2012
World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 published
media 10/07/2012
Right Livelihood Award Laureates against Angra 3
media 13/03/2012
Don’t invest in dirty oil
media
GRAIN releases new data on land grabbing
media 24/02/2012
GRAIN recommends report on landgrabbing & water
media 16/02/2012
Angra 3
media 09/02/2012
Irregularities in HidroAysn approval
media 23/01/2012
Huang Ming interviewed
media 07/12/2011
Award Announcement
media 29/09/2011
Recipients in Stockholm
media
Wangari Maathai passes away
media 26/09/2011
Wangar Maathai passes away
media
Huang Ming
laureates 23/08/2011
GRAIN
laureates
RLA signed open letter on Geoengineering
media 15/06/2011
Governments in favour of huge dams
media 12/05/2011
The foreseeability of nuclear disasters
media 10/05/2011
Stop the Patagonian Megadams
media 06/05/2011
25th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
media 26/04/2011
Mother Earth Day
media 22/04/2011
Mycle Schneider on energy and political power
media 18/04/2011
Workshop scholarship for RLC event available
media 13/04/2011
Joint Statement on Japanese Nuclear Disaster
media 29/03/2011
Belo Monte – The dialogue that never happened
media
World Water Day
media 22/03/2011
Laureates Reaction to Japan Catastrophe
media 21/03/2011
Open letter from Judge Weeramantry
media 17/03/2011
Laureate organisation press conference
media 13/03/2011
Nuclear accident in Japan
media 12/03/2011
Laureate organisation ‘deeply concerned’
media
Chilean government defered to US demands
media 09/03/2011
Controversial Belo Monte Dam construction started
media 28/01/2011
Shell hearing in Dutch Parliament
media 27/01/2011
Right to water – victory in court
media
Frances Moore Lappé receives Prize
media 20/01/2011
Amory Lovins receives runner-up Zayed Prize
media 19/01/2011
Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria, RLA 2010) detained and later released
media 20/12/2010
COP16 to kick off in Cancun today
media 30/11/2010
Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa
media 10/11/2010
Vandana Shiva on Geoengineering
media 02/11/2010
Moratorium on Geoengineering Experiments
media 29/10/2010
Pat Mooney (Canada, RLA 1985) on geo-engineering
media 22/10/2010
Hermann Scheer 1944-2010
media 15/10/2010
Nnimmo Bassey
laureates 23/08/2010
Erwin Kräutler
laureates
Amory Lovins (USA, RLA 1983)
media 04/06/2010
Wangari Maathai (Kenya, RLA 1984)
media 20/05/2010
A note from the Climate Peoples’ Summit by Pat Mooney
media 26/04/2010
Maude Barlow (Canada, RLA 2005)
media 21/04/2010
People’s climate summit in Bolivia
media 20/04/2010
Pat Mooney (Canada, RLA 1985)
media 12/04/2010
Hermann Scheer (Germany, RLA 1999)
media 18/03/2010
Cary Fowler (Norway, RLA 1985)
media 11/03/2010
Survival International (RLA 1989)
media 23/11/2009
Maude Barlow (Canada, RLA 2005)
media 12/11/2009
David Suzuki (Canada, RLA 2009)
media 04/11/2009
The Chipko Movement (India, RLA 1987)
media 03/11/2009
Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan (India)
media 30/10/2009
Narmada Bachao Andolan (India, RLA 1991)
media 29/10/2009
Mycle Schneider (France, RLA 1997)
media 27/08/2009
Edward Goldsmith (UK, RLA 1991)
media 26/08/2009
Martin Green (Australia, RLA 2002)
media 25/08/2009
David Suzuki
laureates 23/08/2009
René Ngongo
laureates
Raul Montenegro (Argentina, RLA 2004)
media 22/07/2009
Percy and Louise Schmeiser
laureates 23/08/2007
Grameen Shakti
laureates
Christopher Weeramantry
laureates
Francisco Toledo
laureates 23/08/2005
Maude Barlow
laureates
Tony Clarke
laureates
Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
laureates
Bianca Jagger
laureates 23/08/2004
Raúl Montenegro
laureates
Nicanor Perlas
laureates 23/08/2003
Martin Green
laureates 23/08/2002
Leonardo Boff
laureates 23/08/2001
Tewolde Berhan
laureates 23/08/2000
Birsel Lemke
laureates
Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
laureates
Hermann Scheer
laureates 23/08/1999
Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
laureates
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
laureates
Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
laureates 23/08/1998
Michael Succow
laureates 23/08/1997
Jinzaburo Takagi
laureates
Cindy Duehring
laureates
Herman Daly
laureates 23/08/1996
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
laureates 23/08/1994
Vandana Shiva
laureates 23/08/1993
Edward Goldsmith
laureates 23/08/1991
Medha Patkar and Baba Amte / Narmada Bachao Andolan
laureates
Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
laureates
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
laureates
Alice Tepper Marlin
laureates 23/08/1990
Survival
laureates 23/08/1989
Melaku Worede
laureates
José Lutzenberger
laureates 23/08/1988
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sarawak (SAM)
laureates
The Chipko Movement
laureates 23/08/1987
Rosalie Bertell
laureates 23/08/1986
Alice Stewart
laureates
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
laureates
Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
laureates
Pat Mooney
laureates 23/08/1985
Lokayan
laureates
Janos Vargha / Duna Kör
laureates
Cary Fowler
laureates
Wangari Maathai
laureates 23/08/1984
High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the people of Belau
laureates 23/08/1983
Amory and Hunter Lovins
laureates
Erik Dammann / The Future in Our Hands
laureates 23/08/1982
Bill Mollison
laureates 23/08/1981
Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
laureates 23/08/1980
