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THE Right Livelihood Award was awarded today to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
This year’s award, known as the Alternative Nobel, went to Phyllis Omido from Kenya and the groups Mother Nature Cambodia and SOS Mediterranee.
The 2023 honorary award was given to Eunice Brookman-Amissah from Ghana.
Ole von Uexkull, the head of the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood foundation, said that the laureates “stand up to save lives, preserve nature and safeguard the dignity and livelihoods of communities around the world and fight for people’s right to health, safety, a clean environment and democracy.”
He said: “They care for their land and each human life connected to it, be it indigenous communities or people risking their lives to get to safety.”
Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honours efforts that the prize founder, Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, felt were being ignored by the increasingly discredited Nobel Prizes.
