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Indian Right Livelihood Award Laureate Medha Patkar on hunger strike – demands justice for people impacted by the Sardar Sarovar dam
media 30/08/2019
Mohamed Idris has Passed Away
media 20/05/2019
2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureates Announced
media 24/09/2018
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 26/09/2017
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
‘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
100 years Robert Jungk
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
