Right Livelihood Award – list of Right Livelihood Award Winners

Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, is a prestigious international award to honour those “working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world 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. The prize money is shared among the winners, usually numbering four, and is EUR 200,000. Very often one of the four laureates receives an honorary award, which means that the other three share the prize money.

 

Right Livelihood Award Country – Sweden Presented by – Right Livelihood Award Foundation First awarded – 1980 Last awarded – 2016 Official website – http://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/

Laureates

Year	Laureates	Country
2016	Syria Civil Defence	Syria
	Mozn Hassan / NAZRA	Egypt
	Svetlana Gannushkina	Russia
	Cumhuriyet	Turkey
2015	Tony de Brum & the People of the Marshall Islands	Marashall
	Sheila Watt-Cloutier	Canada
	Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera	Uganda
	Gino Strada / Emergency	Italy
2014	Edward Snowden	United States
	Alan Rusbridger	United Kingdom
	Asma Jahangir	Pakistan
	Basil Fernando and AHRC	Hong Kong SAR, China
	Bill McKibben and 350.org	United States
2013	Paul Walkar	United States
	Hans Rudolf and Biovision Foundation	Switzerland
	Raji Sourani	Gaza
	Denis Mukwege	Democratic Republic of the Cango
2012	Campaign Against Arms Trade	United Kingdom
	Gene Sharp	United States
	Hayrettin Karaca	Turkey
	Sima Samar	Afghanistan
2011	Huang Ming	China
	Jacquelina Moudeina	Chad
	Grain
	Ina May Gaskin	United States
2010	Nnimmo Bassey	Nigeria
	Erwin Krautler	Austria/Brazil
	Shrikrishna Upadhyay	Nepal
	Physicians for Human Rights	Israel
2009	Catherine Hamin	Australia
	Rene Ngongo	Democratic Republic of the Congo
	David Suzuki	Canada
	Alyn Ware	New Zealand
2008	Krishnammal Jagannathan and Sankaralingam Jagannathan LAFTI	India
	Amy Goodman	United States
	Asha haji Elmi	Somalia
	Monika Hauser	Italy
2007	Christopher Weeramantry	Sri Lanka
	Dekha Ibrahim Abdi	Kenya
	Percy Schmeiser and Louise Schmeiser	Canada
	Grameen Shakti	Bangladesh
2006	Daniel Ellsberg	United States
	Ruth Manorama	India
	Chico Whitaker	Brazil
	International Poetry Festival of Medellin	Colombia
2005	Francisco Toledo	Mexico
	Maude Barlow	Canada
	Tony Clarke	Canada
	First People of the Kalahari / Roy Sesana	Botswana
	Irene Fernandez	Malaysia
2004	Swami Agnivesh	India
	Asghar Ali Engineer	India
	Memorial	Russia
	Bianca Jagger	Nicaragua
	Raúl Montenegro	Argentina
2003	David Lange	New Zealand – Aotearoa
	Walden Bello	Philippines
	Nicanor Perlas	Philippines
	Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice, CCEJ	South Korea
	Sekem / Ibrahim Abouleish	Egypt
2002	Martin Green	Australia
	Centre Jeunes Kamenge, CJK	Burundi
	Kvinna Till Kvinna	Sweden
	Martín Almada	Paraguay
2001	José Antonio Abreu	Venezuela
	Gush Shalom / Uri Avnery and Rachel Avnery	Israel
	Leonardo Boff	Brazil
	Trident Ploughshares	United Kingdom
2000	Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher	Ethiopia
	Munir	Indonesia
	Birsel Lemke	Turkey
	Wes Jackson / The Land Institute	USA
1999	Hermann Scheer	Germany
	Juan Garcés	Spain
	Consolidation of the Amazon Region, COAMA	Colombia
	Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica, GAO	Cuba
1998	International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN
	Samuel Epstein	United States
	Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío	Chile
	Katarina Kruhonja	Croatia
	Vesna Terselic	Croatia
1997	Joseph Ki-Zerbo	Burkina Faso
	Jinzaburo Takagi	Japan
	Mycle Schneider	France
	Michael Succow	Germany
	Cindy Duehring	United States
1996	Herman Daly	United States
	The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia, CSMR	Russia
	Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP)	India
	George Vithoulkas	Greece
1995	András Biró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance	Hungary
	The Serb Civic Council	Bosnia-Herzegovina
	Carmel Budiardjo	United Kingdom
	Sulak Sivaraksa	Thailand
1994	Astrid Lindgren	Sweden
	Servol (Service Volunteered for All)	Trinidad
	Hannumappa R Sudarshan/Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra, VGKK	India
	Ken Saro-Wiwa/Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People	Nigeria
1993	Arna Mer-Khamis	Israel
	Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP)	Zimbabwe
	Vandana Shiva	India
	Mary and Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation	United States
1992	Kylätoiminta / Finnish Village Action	Finland
	Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury	Bangladesh
	Helen Mack Chang	Guatemala
	John Gofman	United States
	Alla Yaroshinskaya	Russia
1991	Edward Goldsmith	United Kingdom
	Medha Patkar and Baba Amte/Narmada Bachao Andolan	India
	Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson	Polynesia
	The Rongelap People/Senator Jeton Anjain	Marshall Islands
	Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, MST	Brazil
	Commissão Pastoral da Terra, CPT	Brazil
1990	Alice Tepper Marlin	United States
	Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo	Burkina Faso
	Felicia Langer	Israel
	Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare (ATCC)	Colombia
1989	Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative	Japan
	Melaku Worede	Ethiopia
	Aklilu Lemma	Ethiopia
	Legesse Wolde-Yohannes	Ethiopia
	Survival
1988	Inge Genefke / Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims	Denmark
	José Lutzenberger	Brazil
	John F. Charlewood Turner	United Kingdom
	Sahabat Alam Malaysia-Sarawak (SAM)	Malaysia
1987	Johan Galtung	Norway
	The Chipko Movement	India
	Hans-Peter Dürr	Germany
	Frances Moore Lappé / Institute for Food and Development Policy	United Kingdom
	Mordechai Vanunu	Israel
1986	Robert Jungk	Austria
	Rosalie Bertell	Canada
	Alice Stewart	United Kingdom
	Ladakh Ecological Development Group / Helena Norberg-Hodge	India
	Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan	Peru
1985	Theo van Boven	Netherlands
	Cary Fowler	Norway
	Pat Mooney	Canada
	Lokayan	India
	Duna Kör / Janos Vargha	Hungary
1984	Imane Khalifeh	Lebanon
	Self-Employed Women’s Association/Ela Bhatt	India
	Winefreda Geonzon / FREE LAVA – Free Legal Assistance Association	Philippines
	Wangari Maathai	Kenya
1983	Leopold Kohr	Austria
	High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the people of Belau	Palau
	Amory and Hunter Lovins	United Kingdom
	Manfred Max-Neef	Chile
1982	Erik Dammann/The Future in Our Hands	Norway
	Anwar Fazal	Malaysia
	Petra Kelly	Germany
	Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA)	Sri Lanka
	George Trevelyan	United Kingdom
1981	Mike Cooley	United Kingdom
	Bill Mollison	Australia
	Patrick van Rensburg	South Africa
1980	Hassan Fathy	Egypt
	Plenty International / Stephen Gaskin	United States

 

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