#Alternative_Nobel_Prize
#Greta_Thunberg: She is a Climate Action
activist from Stockholm, Sweden. At the age 15, she began spending her school days
outside the Swedish parliament to call
for stronger action on global warming by
holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) "School strike for climate".
#Guo_Jianmei: A leading Chinese lawyer and women’s rights advocate, “for her
pioneering and persistent work in securing women’s rights in China”.
#Aminatou_Haidar: She is from western Sahara, whose “dignity and resolve” in campaigning
for the independence of her homeland drew praise from the judges.
#Davi_Kopenawa: Indigenous leader and a spokesperson for the Yanomami
people, who live in an area of the Amazon rainforest on the Brazil-Venezuela
border, completed the four-strong list of laureates. Kopenawa was jointly
recognised with the Hutukara Yanomami Association, which conserves the
rainforest and campaigns for indigenous rights, in Brazil.
#What_is_Rights_Livelihood_awards:
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to
"honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the
most urgent challenges facing us today. The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist “Jakob
von Uexkull” and is presented annually in early December. An international jury,
invited by the five regular Right Livelihood Award board members, decides the
awards in such fields as environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, and peace.
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