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Right Livelihood Award
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Official logo of the Right Livelihood Award.
Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull,
is an award that is presented annually, in early December, to honour
those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent
challenges facing the world today".[1] 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.[citation
needed] The prize money is shared among the winners, usually numbering
four, and is EUR150,000.[2] Very often one of the four Laureates
receives an Honorary Award, which means that the other three share the
Prize money.
Contents
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    * 1 Ceremony
    * 2 History
    * 3 Laureates
    * 4 See also
    * 5 References
    * 6 Bibliography
    * 7 External links

[edit] Ceremony

The ceremony takes place in the Stockholm old Parliament building,
usually during the first week of December. A group of Swedish
Parliamentarians from different parties host the ceremony. The prize
is sometimes called the Alternative Nobel Prize,[3][4] and differs
significantly from the Nobel Prizes in

    * having an open nomination process (anyone can nominate anyone
else, except close relatives or their own organizations);[5]
    * not being limited to specific categories (many more people are
eligible);[2]
    * making individual or shared awards amounting to about 5% of the
Nobel ones; and[citation needed]
    * neither being a fulfillment of Alfred Nobel's bequest nor being
affiliated with the Nobel Prize committees.[citation needed]

[edit] History
The 1994 award given to Dr. Sudarshan photographed in BR Hills

Before establishing the award in 1980, von Uexkull had tried to
interest the Nobel Foundation in a new prize to be awarded together
with the Nobel Prizes. However, as a result of the debate that
followed the establishment of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (first awarded in 1969), the Nobel
Foundation had decided not to associate the Nobel Prize with any
additional awards, so von Uexkull's proposal was rejected.[6]

The award states that, in the 21st century, the "greatest benefit to
mankind" may be found in different fields than in the traditional
sciences or in strict categories: the vast majority of award winners
work for grassroots non-governmental organisations in their countries.
The foundation understands its awards as a complement to the Nobel
Prizes.[7]

Since 1980, the foundation has presented, as of 2009, awards to 137
individuals and organisations from 58 countries. Its purpose is both
to bestow prizes and to publicize the work of its recipients' local
solutions to problems that also exist worldwide.[citation needed]
[edit] Laureates
Year 	Laureates 	Country
1980
Hassan Fathy 	Egypt
Plenty International 	US, Guatemala, Lesotho
1981
Mike Cooley 	United Kingdom
Bill Mollison 	Australia
Patrick van Rensburg / Education with Production 	Botswana, South Africa
1982
Eric Dammann / Future in Our Hands 	Norway
Anwar Fazal 	Malaysia
Petra Kelly 	Germany
Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives 	Sri Lanka
George Trevelyan 	United Kingdom
1983
Leopold Kohr 	Austria
Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute 	US
Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR 	Chile
High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the People of Belau 	Palau
1984
Imane Khalifeh 	Lebanon
Self-Employed Women's Association / Ela Bhatt 	India
Winefreda Geonzon / Free Legal Assistance Volunteers' Association
(FREE LAVA) 	Philippines
Wangari Maathai / Green Belt Movement 	Kenya
1985
Theo Van Boven 	Netherlands
Cary Fowler (Rural Advancement Fund International) 	US
Pat Mooney (Rural Advancement Fund International) 	Canada
Lokayan / Rajni Kothari 	India
Duna Kör 	Hungary
1986
Robert Jungk 	Austria
Rosalie Bertell 	Canada
Alice Stewart 	United Kingdom
Ladakh Ecological Development Group / Helena Norberg-Hodge 	India
Evaristo Nugkuag / AIDESEP 	Peru
1987
Johan Galtung 	Norway
Chipko movement 	India
Hans-Peter Dürr / Global Challenges Network 	Germany
Institute for Food and Development Policy / Frances Moore Lappé 	US
Mordechai Vanunu 	Israel
1988
International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims /
Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke 	Denmark
José Lutzenberger 	Brazil
John F. Charlewood Turner 	United Kingdom
Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohammed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan
people 	Malaysia
1989
Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union 	Japan
Melaku Worede 	Ethiopia
Aklilu Lemma / Legesse Wolde-Yohannes 	Ethiopia
Survival International 	United Kingdom
1990
Alice Tepper Marlin / Council on Economic Priorities 	US
Bernard Lédéa Ouedraogo 	Burkina Faso
Felicia Langer 	Israel
ATCC (Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare) 	Colombia
1991
Edward Goldsmith 	United Kingdom
Narmada Bachao Andolan 	India
Bengt Danielsson & Marie-Thérèse Danielsson 	Polynesia
Senator Jeton Anjain / the People of Rongelap 	Marshall Islands
Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem
Terra) / CPT (Commissao Pastoral da Terra) 	Brazil
1992
Finnish Village Action Movement (Kylätoiminta) 	Finland
Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury 	Bangladesh
Helen Mack 	Guatemala
John Gofman, USA / Alla Yaroshinskaya 	Ukraine
1993
Arna Mer-Khamis / Care and Learning 	Israel
Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress / Sithembiso Nyoni 	Zimbabwe
Vandana Shiva 	India
Mary and Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation 	North America
1994
Astrid Lindgren 	Sweden
SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All) 	Trinidad & Tobago
Dr. H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra) 	India
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
	Ogoniland, Nigeria
1995
András Biró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance 	Hungary
Serb Civic Council 	Bosnia-Herzegovina
Carmel Budiardjo / TAPOL 	Indonesia /United Kingdom
Sulak Sivaraksa 	Thailand
1996
Herman Daly 	US
Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia 	Russia
People's Science Movement of Kerala (Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad) 	India
George Vithoulkas 	Greece
1997
Joseph Ki-Zerbo 	Burkina Faso
Jinzaburo Takagi 	Japan
Mycle Schneider 	France
Michael Succow 	Germany
Cindy Duehring 	US
1998
International Baby Food Action Network 	
Samuel Epstein 	US
Juan Pablo Orrego 	Chile
Katarina Kruhonja / Vesna Terselic 	Croatia
1999
Hermann Scheer 	Germany
Juan Garcés 	Spain
COAMA (Consolidation of the Amazon Region) 	Colombia
Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica 	Cuba
2000
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher 	Ethiopia
Munir 	Indonesia
Birsel Lemke 	Turkey
Wes Jackson 	US
2001
José Antonio Abreu 	Venezuela
Gush Shalom / Rachel and Uri Avnery 	Israel
Leonardo Boff 	Brazil
Trident Ploughshares 	United Kingdom
2002
Martin Green 	Australia
Kamenge Youth Centre (Centre Jeunes Kamenge) 	Burundi
Kvinna Till Kvinna 	Sweden
Martín Almada 	Paraguay
2003
David Lange 	New Zealand
Walden Bello / Nicanor Perlas 	Philippines
Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice 	South Korea
SEKEM 	Egypt and Ibrahim Abouleish
2004
Swami Agnivesh / Asghar Ali Engineer 	India
Memorial Society 	Russia
Bianca Jagger 	Nicaragua
Raúl Montenegro 	Argentina
2005
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke 	Canada
Irene Fernandez 	Malaysia
Roy Sesana and First People of the Kalahari 	Botswana
Francisco Toledo 	Mexico
2006
Daniel Ellsberg 	US
Ruth Manorama 	India
Chico Whitaker 	Brazil
International Poetry Festival of Medellín 	Colombia
2007
Christopher Weeramantry 	Sri Lanka
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi 	Kenya
Percy Schmeiser and Louise Schmeiser 	Canada
Grameen Shakti 	Bangladesh
2008
Krishnammal Jagannathan and Sankaralingam Jagannathan LAFTI 	India
Amy Goodman 	US
Asha Haji Elmi 	Somalia
Monika Hauser 	Germany
2009
Catherine Hamlin 	Australia
René Ngongo 	Democratic Republic of the Congo
David Suzuki 	Canada
Alyn Ware 	New Zealand
[edit] See also

    * Right livelihood
    * Schock Prize
    * Polar Music Prize
    * Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
    * List of prizes, medals, and awards

[edit] References

   1. ^ Jawetz, Pincas. 30th Right Livelihood Awards: Wake-up calls to
secure our common future. SustainabiliTank. 13 Oct. 2009.
   2. ^ a b About the Right Livelihood Award. Accessed January 24, 2010.
   3. ^ NewsAhead (2006-12-08). "Alternative Nobel Prize" awarded in
Sweden. NewsAhead World News Forecast, 8 December 2006. Retrieved on
2007-10-24 from
http://www.newsahead.com/PREVIEW/alternative_Nobel_award_Dec_06.htm[dead
link].
   4. ^ Liptak, Bela G. (1988-02-14). Austria Fouling Hungary's
Environment. Letter to the Editor dated 14 February 1988. The New York
Times, 9 March 1988. Retrieved on 2007-10-24 from
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDF1238F93AA35750C0A96E948260.
   5. ^ Right Livelihood Award: Proposals & Selection Process.
Accessed January 24, 2010.
   6. ^ TT-DN (2003-10-02). Alternativt Nobelpris delas på fem. Dagens
Nyheter, "Publicerat 2003-10-02 10:08". Retrieved from
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=188389. (Swedish)
   7. ^ Right Livelihood Foundation (2007-10-02). "2007 Right
Livelihood Awards highlight solutions to global challenges". Right
Livelihood Foundation. http://www.rightlivelihood.org/2007_10_02.html.
Retrieved 2007-12-12.

[edit] Bibliography

    * Pathiravitana, S. (2007-11-08). A Great Son of Lanka. Sri Lanka
Daily News, 8 November 2007. A history of the award. Retrieved on
2008-06-03 from http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/11/08/fea01.asp.

[edit] External links

    * Right Livelihood Award - Official site
    * Complete list of recipients with descriptions
    * Jakob von Uexkull - Founder
    * Right Livelihood Laureates Discuss Their Battles for Social
Justice - video report by Democracy Now!

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