Advocacy statements
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We’re looking for an Education Officer!
Can you make the viability of building a just, peaceful and sustainable world for all visible to the next generation of changemakers? Right Livelihood is seeking an Education Officer. Purpose This role will further develop our education work and focus on developing educational formats for activists and university students, both in-person and online, to learn…
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Pioneering AI researcher Timnit Gebru receives 2026 Right Livelihood Award for challenging concentrated power in technology
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Georgian rights group GYLA receives 2026 Right Livelihood Award
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Rural Women’s Assembly receives Right Livelihood Award for organising 178,000 female farmers in Southern Africa to defend land and bodily autonomy
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Jalila Haider receives Right Livelihood Award for defending Pakistan’s persecuted and forgotten
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2026 Laureates challenge autocracy, patriarchy and AI bias
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We’re announcing the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates on September 30!
Who are the change-makers receiving the 2026 Right Livelihood Award? You can find out on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. The 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates will be announced at 6 am Stockholm time (Central European Summer Time), followed by a press conference livestreamed at 8 am. You can follow the announcement live on YouTube or on…
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Building the case for future Laureates: Inside the Research
As the Jury‘s decision to select the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates gets closer, Ben Lyons, the latest addition to the Research Team, reveals how the case for a Laureate is built: from getting proposals to analysing profiles and contexts in an individualised manner to compile a Jury Report with almost a hundred nominations. The complexity…
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Beyond extraction: Communities in Mozambique are reclaiming the future
By Mariel Merayo Ramirez, Advocacy Officer at Right Livelihood “A luta continua.”The struggle continues. It is a phrase heard often in Mozambique. Born from the country’s liberation movement during the 1960s and 70s, it has become much more than a historical slogan. Today, it speaks to communities who continue to defend their land, rivers and…
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Reconceptualising Exile: What saves your life can also unravel it
Exile is not travel, not an opportunity, nor migration. It is not driven by choice, but by necessity. It is movement without agency, a last resort to remain free and alive. Yet the cost is profound. Through the ‘Reconceptualising Exile’ project, Right Livelihood supports human rights defenders not only to survive displacement but to rebuild…