RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD

Sept. 27, 2019

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, was among four people named as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award. She shares the award with Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa of the Yanomami people, Chinese women's rights lawyer Guo Jianmei and Western Sahara human rights defender Aminatou Haidar.

About: 

  • Background: The annual Right Livelihood Award was created in 1980 by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull.

  • Objective: It honours courageous people and organisations offering solutions to the root causes of global problems, that the prize founder, felt were being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

  • Categories: Unlike most other international prizes, the Right Livelihood Award has no categories. 

  • Recipients: It is usually shared by four Recipients, but may vary from year-to-year. 

  • Prize money:
    • This year, The four laureates will received a cash award of 1 million Swedish crowns ($103,000) each.

    • Not always all Laureates receive a cash award. Often an Honorary Award is given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognise but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. 



  • Award ceremony: It is Presented annually in Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Although it is promoted as an "Alternative Nobel Prize", it is not a Nobel prize and does not have any organizational ties to the awarding institutions of the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Foundation.

Source : The Hindu