{"id":8510,"date":"2020-12-03T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/?page_id=8510"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:57:15","slug":"category-right-livelihood-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/category-right-livelihood-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Livelihood Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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159 applications from 67 countries \u2013 four of which we have selected as winners of the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the \u201cAlternative Nobel Prize.\u201d They are all working against the unfortunate trend of division and autocracy. All four \u2013 and the people behind them \u2013 are committed…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Even in this time of war and destruction, there is a need for signs of hope and future. That’s why today I’m reporting on “The Forest Maker” Toni Rinaudo and filmmaker Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff. “I firmly believe that with the right production methods, Africa could easily feed the world.” A bold…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Sima Samar received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” in 2012 (with Monika Griefahn and Jakob von Uexk\u00fcll). In 2012 Sima Samar received the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”). We were very impressed by her fight for human rights and especially for women’s rights.\u00a0 Afghanistan is a…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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They stand up against violence and climate change and address the most pressing questions of our time: Marthe Wandou (Cameroon), Wladimir Sliwjak (Russia), Freda Huson (People of the Wet’suwet’en, Canada) and the Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (India) are the winners of the Right Livelohood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”)…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Stockholm, Berlin, Zurich and Geneva \u2013 this year, a busy itinerary was in store for the latest laureates of the Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. Not all of them could take part, however \u2212 our Chinese laureate Guo Jianmei was missing, as was Greta Thunberg…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A few years ago, Helmy Abouleish, the manager of Sekem, visited the Cradle to Cradle Congress in Germany. He was convinced that the path his father had chosen for the project was the right one, and that the development it had undergone since 1977 was ample proof for that. But…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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At this year’s first board meeting of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation (“Alternative Nobel Prize”), we “young people” were able to benefit from the extensive experiences of Daniel Ellsberg, a person who had already acted as a whistle-blower by the late 1960s \u2212 and therefore at a time when the…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Robert Bilott (l.) and Monika Griefahn visit politician Cem \u00d6zdemir (Green Party). The Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) is intended to allow its laureates to make new investments in their projects as well as to provide them with personal support, protection…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Right Livelihood Awards 2017 Press release Robert BilotPhoto: Taft-Stettinius-Hollister The Laureates of this year\u2019s Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the \u2018Alternative Nobel Prize\u2019, have been announced lately in Stockholm, Sweden. This year\u2019s honorary award goes to Robert Bilott (USA) \u201cfor exposing…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The winner of the most recent Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) was announced back in November 2016. However, as the laureate, Mozn Hassan, was not allowed to travel outside of her native Egypt she wasn’t able to participate in the awards ceremony in Stockholm. But now the award has…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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At this year\u2019s meeting of environmental award winners from all over the world in the southern German city of Freiburg, participants from Brazil, China, India and other countries showed a lot of interest in the Cradle to Cradle design concept. After the introductory talk on the subject a lively and…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Photo: Janine Escher As a way of sending out a message against the war in Syria the Right Livelihood Award Foundation this year gave one of its four Right Livelihood Awards – also often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prizes – to the Syrian White Helmets. What…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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