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    The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges...
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  • Right Livelihood can refer to: A Buddhist virtue articulated as part of the Noble Eightfold Path The Right Livelihood Award, an international award established...
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    East from the Norrbro The Right Livelihood Award has been presented to recipients at a ceremony in Parliament House. The award was established in 1980 to...
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  • G. Sohani i KS Gopal Madhukar Shukla Ajit Kanitkar Sankar Datta Right Livelihood Award Three Principles of the People#Mínshēng, a related concept in Chinese...
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    Dupont. This public attention led to a number of awards, including the international Right Livelihood Award. Bilott was born on August 2, 1965, in Albany...
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    representing the German Green Party. In 1980, Uexküll founded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2006, he co-founded the World Future Council. Born in Sweden...
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    Ethiopian lawyer and disability rights activist. In 2017, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her inspiring work promoting the rights and inclusion...
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    Gandhi Award for working for the good of society. In 2007, Percy Schmeiser and Louise Schmeiser were named winners of the Right Livelihood Award: ... for...
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    April 1997) was an Ethiopian pathologist. In 1989, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for discovering and campaigning relentlessly for an affordable...
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    2004 Right Livelihood Award 2006 World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 2006 Office of the Americas Peace and Justice Award 2008...
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    leading expert on repairing injuries of rape". In 2013, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "his courageous work healing women survivors of war-time...
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    February 2018. Jahangir is the recipient of several awards including the 2014 Right Livelihood Award (along with Edward Snowden) for "defending, protecting...
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    Amy Goodman (category George Polk Award recipients)
    She has received awards for her work, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special...
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    under the Chipko movement. In 1987, the Chipko movement was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for its dedication to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound...
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    author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture"...
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  • island of Marinduque, Philippines takes place. March 25 – The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in...
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  • leading spokespersons Medha Patkar and Baba Amte, received the Right Livelihood Award in 1991. After India's independence in 1947, under the newly formed...
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  • for the 2012 award. In 2011, he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize. In 2012, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for "developing...
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    accolades. In 2020, he won the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". In 2022, Bialiatski was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize...
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  • sociologist; awarded the 1998 Prince Claus Award. Legesse Wolde-Yohannes (born 1936), horticultural scientist; co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award. Giday...
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    from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In 1984, she got the Right Livelihood Award for "converting the Kenyan ecological debate into mass action for...
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    Franklin Award from the American Philosophical Society as a "Drum major for justice and mercy." In 2020, he shared the Right Livelihood Award with Nasrin...
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    speaker of Mossi. In 2018, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. In 2020, he was awarded the Champions of the Earth award. Sawadogo died on 3 December...
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    protection, labour law and public interest law. He has been awarded Right Livelihood Award for the year 2017 for "his tireless and innovative use of public...
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  • Ruth Manorama (category Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2005)
    sector, as well as urban slum dwellers. In 2006, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Ruth Manorama was born on 30 May 1952 to Dorothy & Paul Dhanraj...
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    Daniel Ellsberg (category American Book Award winners)
    dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important...
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    Snowden shared a Joint Honorary Award with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, from the Swedish Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Also in December...
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    Astrid Lindgren (category Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing winners)
    sold roughly 167 million books worldwide. In 1994, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children...
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  • the Kontras human rights organisation and laureate of the 2000 Right Livelihood Award, Munir was assassinated in 2004 while travelling to Utrecht University...
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    Global Rise of the Far Right (2019) Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019) In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes...
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