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2022 Right Livelihood Award
2022 Right Livelihood Laureates lead the way in changing broken systems
Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, Somalia
“For promoting peace, demilitarisation and human rights in Somalia in the face of terrorism and gender-based violence.”
Oleksandra Matviichuk / Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), Ukraine
“For building sustainable democratic institutions in Ukraine and modelling a path to international accountability for war crimes.”
Cecosesola, Venezuela
“For establishing an equitable and cooperative economic model as a robust alternative to profit-driven economies.”
Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), Uganda
“For their courageous work for climate justice and community rights violated by extractivist energy projects in Uganda.”
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Change-maker Spotlight
A champion of non-violence
Aminatou HaidarWestern Sahara -
A courageous voice
Indigenous rights are human rights!
Lottie Cunningham WrenNicaragua -
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Award Presentation
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How can I take action for human rights?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do for a world where every person can live with dignity, freedom, equality, justice and peace!
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Change-maker Spotlight
Guardians of indigenous culture
Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami AssociationBrazil -
A Courageous Voice
Inclusive education for individuals with disabilities is solvable
Yetnebersh NigussieEthiopia -
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How can I take action for culture and education?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to ensure everyone has the right to education and to celebrate their own culture!
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Change-maker Spotlight
Fighters against corruption and impunity
Iván Velásquez & Thelma AldanaGuatemala -
A courageous voice
“Human rights” is a new name for the concept of liberty
Edward SnowdenUSA -
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How can I take action for democracy?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to advocate for democracy and good governance!
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Change-maker Spotlight
A campaigner against water privatisation
Maude BarlowCanada -
A courageous voice
Globalisation has not only lost its promise but is embittering many
Walden BelloPhilippines -
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How can I take action for economic justice?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development!
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Change-maker Spotlight
A trailblazer for women’s rights in China
Guo JianmeiChina -
A courageous voice
Ending rape as a weapon of war
Denis MukwegeDemocratic Republic of Congo -
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Eva HildSculptor -
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How can I take action for gender equality?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to ensure that people of all genders enjoy equal rights and opportunities!
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Change-maker Spotlight
The lawyer dubbed “DuPont's worst nightmare”
Robert BilottUSA -
A courageous voice
Violence is not the right medicine
Gino StradaItaly -
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How can I take action to ensure health for all?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to ensure healthy lives and well-being for all!
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Change-maker Spotlight
An advocate for inclusive education
Yetnebersh NigussieEthiopia -
A courageous voice
The principles of peace are the same everywhere
Alyn WareNew Zealand -
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Award Presentation
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How can I take action for peace?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies!
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Change-maker Spotlight
An instigator of global climate action
Greta ThunbergSweden -
A courageous voice
Protecting the ”right to be cold”
Sheila Watt-CloutierCanada -
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How can I take action for sustainability?
Get inspired by courageous change-makers, and find out what you can do to build a greener and fairer world!
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Cecosesola
Venezuela
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Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO)
Uganda
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Oleksandra Matviichuk / Center for Civil Liberties (CCL)
Ukraine
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Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman
Somalia
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Marthe Wandou
Cameroon
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Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)
India
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Vladimir Slivyak
Russia
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Freda Huson
Wet’suwet’en People, Canada
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Nasrin Sotoudeh
Iran
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Ales Bialiatski / Viasna
Belarus
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Lottie Cunningham Wren
Nicaragua
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Bryan Stevenson
USA
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Aminatou Haidar
Western Sahara
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Guo Jianmei
China
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Greta Thunberg
Sweden
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Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami Association
Brazil
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Thelma Aldana & Iván Velásquez
Guatemala / Colombia
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Tony Rinaudo
Australia
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Abdullah al-Hamid, Waleed Abu al-Khair & Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani
Saudi Arabia
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Yacouba Sawadogo
Burkina Faso
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Robert Bilott
USA
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Colin Gonsalves
India
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Khadija Ismayilova
Azerbaijan
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Yetnebersh Nigussie
Ethiopia
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Syria Civil Defence
Syria
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Mozn Hassan / NAZRA
Egypt
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Svetlana Gannushkina
Russia
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Cumhuriyet
Turkey
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Gino Strada / EMERGENCY
Italy
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Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Uganda
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Canada
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Tony de Brum / The People of the Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands
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Bill McKibben / 350.org
USA
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Basil Fernando / Asian Human Rights Commission
Hong Kong SAR, China
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Asma Jahangir
Pakistan
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Alan Rusbridger
UK
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Edward Snowden
USA
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Hans Herren / Biovision Foundation
Switzerland
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Denis Mukwege
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Raji Sourani
Gaza, Palestine
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Paul Walker
USA
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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
UK
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Gene Sharp
USA
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Sima Samar
Afghanistan
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Hayrettin Karaca
Turkey
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Ina May Gaskin
USA
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GRAIN
International
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Jacqueline Moudeina
Chad
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Huang Ming
China
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel
Israel
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Shrikrishna Upadhyay / SAPPROS
Nepal
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Erwin Kräutler
Brazil
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Nnimmo Bassey
Nigeria
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Catherine Hamlin
Ethiopia
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Alyn Ware
New Zealand
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René Ngongo
Democratic Republic of Congo
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David Suzuki
Canada
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Monika Hauser
Germany
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Asha Hagi Elmi
Somalia
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Amy Goodman
USA
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Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan / LAFTI
India
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Grameen Shakti
Bangladesh
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Percy and Louise Schmeiser
Canada
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Dekha Abdi
Kenya
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Christopher Weeramantry
Sri Lanka
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Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín
Colombia
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Ruth Manorama
India
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Daniel Ellsberg
USA
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Chico Whitaker Ferreira
Brazil
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Roy Sesana / First People of the Kalahari
Botswana
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Irene Fernandez
Malaysia
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Tony Clarke
Canada
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Maude Barlow
Canada
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Francisco Toledo
Mexico
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Raúl Montenegro
Argentina
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Bianca Jagger
Nicaragua
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Memorial
Russia
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Asghar Ali Engineer
India
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Swami Agnivesh
India
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Ibrahim Abouleish / SEKEM
Egypt
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Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice
South Korea
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Nicanor Perlas
Philippines
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Walden Bello
Philippines
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David Lange
New Zealand
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Martín Almada
Paraguay
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Kvinna till Kvinna
Sweden
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Centre Jeunes Kamenge
Burundi
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Martin Green
Australia
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Trident Ploughshares
UK
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Leonardo Boff
Brazil
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Uri and Rachel Avnery / Gush Shalom
Israel
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José Antonio Abreu
Venezuela
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Wes Jackson / The Land Institute
USA
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Birsel Lemke
Turkey
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Munir
Indonesia
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Tewolde Berhan
Ethiopia
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Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica (GAO)
Cuba
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Consolidation of the Amazon Region (COAMA)
Colombia
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Juan Garcés
Spain
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Hermann Scheer
Germany
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Vesna Terselic
Croatia
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Katarina Kruhonja
Croatia
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Juan Pablo Orrego / Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB)
Chile
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Samuel Epstein
USA
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International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
International
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Cindy Duehring
USA
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Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Burkina Faso
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Jinzaburo Takagi
Japan
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Mycle Schneider
France
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Michael Succow
Germany
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George Vithoulkas
Greece
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Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP)
India
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The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia (CSMR)
Russia
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Herman Daly
USA
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Sulak Sivaraksa
Thailand
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Carmel Budiardjo
UK
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Serb Civic Council
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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András Bíró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance
Hungary
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Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Nigeria
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Hanumappa R. Sudarshan / VGKK
India
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Servol (Service Volunteered for All)
Trinidad & Tobago
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Astrid Lindgren
Sweden
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Mary and Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation
USA
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Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP)
Zimbabwe
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Arna Mer-Khamis
Israel
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Vandana Shiva
India
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Alla Yaroshinskaya
Russia
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John Gofman
USA
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Helen Mack Chang
Guatemala
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Zafrullah Chowdhury / Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Bangladesh
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Suomen Kylät / Finnish Village Movement Association
Finland
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST)
Brazil
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Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)
Brazil
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Senator Jeton Anjain / The Rongelap People
Marshall Islands
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Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson
Polynesia
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Narmada Bachao Andolan / Medha Patkar, Baba Amte
India
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Edward Goldsmith
UK
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Felicia Langer
Israel / Germany
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Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare (ATCC)
Colombia
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Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo
Burkina Faso
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Alice Tepper Marlin
USA
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Survival
International
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Legesse Wolde-Yohannes
Ethiopia
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Aklilu Lemma
Ethiopia
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Melaku Worede
Ethiopia
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Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative
Japan
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Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) – Sarawak
Malaysia
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John F. Charlewood Turner
UK
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José Lutzenberger
Brazil
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Inge Genefke / Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
Denmark
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Mordechai Vanunu
Israel
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Frances Moore-Lappé
USA
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The Chipko Movement
India
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Johan Galtung
Norway
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Hans-Peter Dürr
Germany
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Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan
Perú
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Helena Norberg-Hodge / Ladakh Ecological Development Group
Australia
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Alice Stewart
UK
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Rosalie Bertell
Canada
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Robert Jungk
Austria
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János Vargha / Duna Kör
Hungary
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Lokayan
India
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Pat Mooney
Canada
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Cary Fowler
USA
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Theo van Boven
The Netherlands
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Wangari Maathai
Kenya
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Winefreda Geonzon / FREELAVA
Philippines
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Ela Bhatt / Self-Employed Women’s Association
India
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Imane Khalifeh
Lebanon
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Amory and Hunter Lovins
USA
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Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR
Chile
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High Chief Ibedul Gibbons / The People of Belau
Palau
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Leopold Kohr
Austria
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George Trevelyan
UK
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Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA)
Sri Lanka
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Anwar Fazal
Malaysia
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Erik Dammann / Future in Our Hands
Norway
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Petra Kelly
Germany
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Patrick van Rensburg
South Africa
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Bill Mollison
Australia
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Mike Cooley
UK
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Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International
USA
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Hassan Fathy
Egypt
2022 Right Livelihood Laureates
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