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8.4.2020

A Dose of Inspiration: How to stay positive and keep activism going amidst COVID-19

8.4.2020

A Dose of Inspiration: How to stay positive and keep activism going amidst COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis. It has profoundly changed our society and our everyday life. As people are staying home to slow the spread, we have put together a collection of resources with inspiration and ideas for action to help people stay positive and active.

Follow @rightlivelihood on social media for daily “antidotes” inspired by the Right Livelihood Award Laureates, or explore the entire collection of resources at our dedicated COVID-19 webpage “Facing COVID-19 Together”.
Stay tuned for our webinar series in which Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be invited to share their views on the current global crisis.
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20.10.25 News Environmental justice leader Nnimmo Bassey joins Right Livelihood’s Board	news
13.10.25 News White Helmets join Syria’s National Emergency Response Ministry	news
21.08.25 News Four days. Over one hundred choices: Decisions that can shape futures	news
17.08.25 News Filipino Laureate Nicanor Perlas has passed away	news
08.07.25 News “See us as human beings”: Issa Amro brings standing ovation, full house to Berlin	news
07.07.25 News Waleed Abu al-Khair has spent 11 years in prison—He’s still Saudi Arabia’s conscience	news
29.06.25 News Right Livelihood mourns the passing of Norwegian environmentalist and scholar Erik Dammann	news
26.06.25 News Ales Bialiatski and Viasna must be freed: Right Livelihood urges UN action on Belarus crackdown	news
19.06.25 News Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib on how women resist conflict, patriarchy and exclusion	news
19.06.25 News The cost of speaking truth to power: Helen Mack-Chang on corruption and impunity	news
19.06.25 News Indigenous women, collective rights and global resistance: a conversation with Joan Carling	news
19.06.25 News Who gets to dream? Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib on education, power and gender apartheid	news
17.06.25 News How to resist authoritarianism without burning out	news
28.05.25 News Global rights, local battles: What we took to the 58th UN Human Rights Council	news
22.05.25 News In Syria, a nation returns home — and the White Helmets rise to a new mission	news
20.05.25 News “It’s enough!”: Venezuelan cooperative challenges the capitalist mindset	news
28.04.25 News “Weeks before we can no longer operate”: EMERGENCY warns as ICJ hears case on Gaza aid blockade	news
12.03.25 News “Impunity will not be tolerated,” says Joan Carling calling for broader justice as Duterte faces ICC trial	news
10.03.25 News Despite mounting pressure on her family, Nasrin Sotoudeh struggles on for human rights in Iran	news
08.03.25 News Right Livelihood launches Women Laureates Hub to advance gender equality globally	news
14.02.25 News EMERGENCY’s healthcare efforts in Gaza: “We are still here, and we will not leave”	news
07.02.25 News Right Livelihood welcomes Kajsa Övergaard to our Board of Trustees	news
07.02.25 News Even in exile, Sima Samar fights and hopes for Afghan women’s rights	news
29.01.25 News Francisco Toledo’s daughter celebrates Mexican president’s initiative to protect native corn	news
24.01.25 News Palestinian Laureate Issa Amro condemns Trump’s lifting of sanctions on violent Israeli settler groups	news
16.01.25 News Laureates express cautious optimism over Israel-Hamas ceasefire amidst “profound grief” over lives lost	news
19.12.24 News Abuses against human rights defenders in focus at UN Human Rights Council	news
13.12.24 News Living memory: How has Right Livelihood built and preserved its institutional history?	news
05.12.24 News Tony Clarke, renowned advocate for water justice and social equity, dies at 80	news
26.11.24 News More than handing over a prize: What else happens during the Right Livelihood Award Week?	news
06.11.24 News Laureates react to US elections: the results “will be read in the geological record millennia hence”	news
06.11.24 News Laureate Martin von Hildebrand takes on top post to promote sustainable development around the Amazon	news
24.10.24 News Mother Nature Cambodia activists should be applauded not imprisoned, Right Livelihood tells the UN Human Rights Council	news
16.10.24 News Right Livelihood and Viasna urge accountability for human rights violations in Belarus	news
16.10.24 News Saudi Arabia must be held responsible for human rights abuses	news
16.10.24 News Right Livelihood highlights global rise in arbitrary detentions at UN Human Rights Council	news
18.09.24 News Right Livelihood addresses UN Human Rights Council on behalf of Abdullah al-Qahtani as his father’s enforced disappearance nears two-year mark	news
04.09.24 News Legal expert Joshua Castellino joins Right Livelihood’s Board	news
02.09.24 News We’re announcing the 2024 Right Livelihood Laureates on October 3!	news
30.08.24 News Juan Pablo Orrego: “The Jury process made me reflect more deeply on the unpleasant subject of arms and war”	news
28.08.24 News SEWA’s fight against heat, India’s invisible killer: “This is the reality for women in the informal sector”	news
21.08.24 News Who’s choosing this year’s top change-makers? Meet our 2024 Jury!	news
06.08.24 News Environmental defenders in focus at 56th UN Human Rights Council	news
31.07.24 News Right Livelihood: The UN Human Rights Council must act on EACOP human rights violations	news
30.07.24 News Environmental defenders should be applauded, not attacked, Right Livelihood urges UN Human Rights Council	news
30.07.24 News Right Livelihood condemns Cambodia’s rigged judicial system, calls for release of jailed Mother Nature Cambodia members	news
08.07.24 News Michael Succow Stiftung celebrates 25 years	news
18.06.24 News András Bíró, known as the “patriarch of Hungarian civil society”, dies at 98	news
04.06.24 News Raji Sourani: Defending Palestinians is a fight for the world’s conscience	news
24.05.24 News Police brutality in Kenya raises safety concerns for Phyllis Omido, local environmental defenders	news
14.05.24 News Mycle Schneider: Nuclear power is not an option	news
02.05.24 News Right Livelihood sheds light on human rights crises across the globe at 55th Human Rights Council	news
29.04.24 News Colombian farmers mobilise against illegal armed groups attempting to take control	news
16.04.24 News Right Livelihood and ALDEPA call for action on gender equality in Cameroon	news
10.04.24 News Right Livelihood and Viasna demand accountability at UN Human Rights Council	news
05.04.24 News Martín Almada, who fought US-backed Latin American dictatorships, dies in his native Paraguay	news
26.03.24 News The UN must take action to stop human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia	news
21.03.24 News Geneva panel highlights: youth activism through the lens of Right Livelihood Laureates	news
14.03.24 News Vladimir Slivyak on Russia’s elections: “Vladimir Putin eliminated political opposition a long time ago”	news
14.03.24 News Raul Montenegro on Argentina: “What was serious before now becomes catastrophic”	news
14.03.24 News Right Livelihood denounces global repression of peaceful protesters at Human Rights Council	news
14.03.24 News Joint statement condemns global persecution of youth activists	news
12.03.24 News Bill McKibben reflects on decade since Right Livelihood Award	news
12.03.24 News Aminatou Haidar admonishes Morocco’s human rights violations at UN Human Rights Council	news
08.03.24 News Investing in women to accelerate social change: An interview with Mozn Hassan	news
05.03.24 News Joint statement: Nicaragua has victimised over 1,198 Indigenous people since 2018	news
23.02.24 News Monika Hauser on Ukraine: Prioritise “needs of survivors of sexualised violence”	news
23.02.24 News Two years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Vladimir Slivyak keeps up the fight for peace and Russia’s soul	news
22.02.24 News “I still lack the words:” Oleksandra Matviichuk reflects on two years of living under Russia’s war on Ukraine	news
21.02.24 News Johan Galtung, “the father of peace studies,” dies at 93	news
13.02.24 News Strengthening Democracy: Lessons from Frances Moore Lappé	news
09.02.24 News Unravelling the future: Janos Vargha’s journey through environmental challenges and societal shifts	news
14.12.23 News Joan Garcés criticises Chile’s latest Constitution draft as “the most regressive” in the country’s history	news
14.12.23 News Governments must reform their laws on torture, IRCT urges, as it advocates for survivor justice	news
04.12.23 News Burkinabé Laureate Yacouba Sawadogo, “the man who stopped the desert,” dies	news
01.12.23 News Son of disappeared Saudi Laureate met with hostility at Saudi embassy for delivering petition calling for his release	news
17.11.23 News Vesna Teršelič: “During the Russian aggression, we in Europe once again became aware of the importance of insisting on justice”	news
09.11.23 News Right Livelihood and partners launch #FreeAlQahtani campaign to demand Laureate’s release	news
01.11.23 News Physicians for Human Rights-Israel: International community must protect civilians in Israel and Gaza	news
30.10.23 News Alyn Ware co-launches ‘LAW not War’ campaign for universal ICJ jurisdiction	news
27.10.23 News 54th UN Human Rights Council: We shed light on activist repression, indigenous peoples’ plight in Nicaragua, environmental degradation	news
20.10.23 News Joint statement: human rights violations in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara must end	news
20.10.23 News András Bíró: The task of civil society is to both cooperate with and control political power	news
11.10.23 News Invention to revolution: Martin Green’s optimism for solar energy in tackling the climate crisis	news
09.10.23 News Job opening: Research Officer	news
05.10.23 News Civil society faces erasure in Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Western Sahara	news
04.10.23 News The Green Climate Fund’s BioClima project endangers Indigenous life in Nicaragua	news
02.10.23 News Joint UN statement: Continued impunity threatens survival of Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples	news
26.09.23 News Announcing the new Laureates: What’s behind the most globally anticipated day for Right Livelihood?	news
25.09.23 News The UN must establish an independent investigative body for Belarus	news
22.09.23 News Right Livelihood calls for end to EACOP construction amidst human rights concerns	news
20.09.23 News British architect John Turner, who called for human-centred housing policies, dies at 96	news
19.09.23 News Saudi Arabia must end practice of enforced disappearances, we demand at UN Human Rights Council	news
15.09.23 News Guatemala’s fight for democracy requires international support	news
14.09.23 News Nicaragua must protect indigenous communities from violence and land grabs	news
11.09.23 News On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, Right Livelihood honours Laureate pursuing accountability	news
30.08.23 News Jury meeting and Laureates’ selection: Every Award is political!	news
29.08.23 News Introducing the 2023 Right Livelihood Jury	news
28.08.23 News Forging a new era of justice at the third annual conference on the Global State of Human Rights	news
28.08.23 News We’re announcing the 2023 Right Livelihood Laureates on September 28!	news
21.08.23 News Desde el exilio, defensoras guatemaltecas laureadas de Right Livelihood ven con optimismo la victoria del presidente anticorrupción	news
07.08.23 News Research on the ground: when the nominees’ fields of work become also ours	news
01.08.23 News Ethiopian Laureate Melaku Worede, renowned conservationist and agronomist, dies at 87	news
27.07.23 News Nicaragua’s indigenous peoples and Uganda’s LGBTIQ+ community highlighted at UN Human Rights Council	news
27.07.23 News Miradas con ojos frescos: practicantes de Right Livelihood y sus aportes a lo largo de los años	news
21.07.23 News We must act to protect LGBTIQ+ Ugandans, activists plead at UN side event	news
04.07.23 News Japan’s imminent plan to dump Fukushima wastewater into the ocean is “scandalous,” warns CNIC	news
22.06.23 News Uganda must repeal its new anti-LGBTIQ+ law, which forces Ugandans back into the closet	news
22.06.23 News Indigenous communities in Nicaragua are facing a humanitarian crisis	news
20.06.23 News Thelma Aldana: “My biggest challenge in exile is to be happy”	news
17.06.23 News Daniel Ellsberg, US whistleblower and peace activist, dies at age 92	news
13.06.23 News Right Livelihood’s Education workshops: “We wanted to encourage people, but also to equip them with useful tools”	news
31.05.23 News Aminatou Haidar’s vision for a free Western Sahara	news
24.05.23 News Amidst the tragedy of Covid-19, Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan finds a silver lining in India’s remote regions	news
22.05.23 News The art of advocacy: bringing Laureates’ causes to the international arena	news
18.05.23 News Meet the Right Livelihood Laureates fighting to keep our waters clean from pollutants	news
16.05.23 News Svetlana Gannushkina: At 81, “I really want to live to see the end of Putin’s regime”	news
04.05.23 News The role of water in building resilient food and farming systems	news
03.05.23 News World Press Freedom Day 2023: Natallia Satsunkevich details dire situation for journalists and ordinary citizens in Belarus	news
03.05.23 News World Press Freedom Day 2023: María Stella Cáceres shares insights on the history and current state of press freedom in Paraguay	news
03.05.23 News World Press Freedom Day 2023: András Bíro reflects on the current state of press freedom in Hungary	news
25.04.23 News Pat Mooney’s Long Food Movement teaches us how to transform food systems	news
20.04.23 News Pacific Islander Laureates continue fight for environmental justice, enduring effects of nuclear testing and climate change	news
20.04.23 News Right Livelihood warns of human rights abuses against activists, indigenous peoples and women during 52nd session of UN Human Rights Council	news
12.04.23 News After the 2023 UN Water Conference: Making water security a top priority for climate action	news
12.04.23 News Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who championed access to healthcare in rural Bangladesh, dies at 81	news
04.04.23 News Monika Hauser: “The development in Afghanistan is the bitterest pill I have had to swallow”	news
30.03.23 News Indigenous people’s existence can’t rely on political favours: Brazil must take action	news
27.03.23 News Right Livelihood demands action from Morocco on Sahrawi self-determination in joint UN statement	news
24.03.23 News Joint UN statement: Prioritising economic interests over human rights in Saudi Arabia has a human cost	news
23.03.23 News Maude Barlow: Tackling the water crisis is the only way to safeguard people and the planet	news
23.03.23 News States must better protect human rights defenders in Belarus, we warned in UN joint statement	news
22.03.23 News Ethiopian Laureate Tewolde Berhan, who fought for biodiversity and community rights, dies at 83	news
22.03.23 News Why you should care about the impending water crisis	news
21.03.23 News Viasna member Natallia Satsunkevich: “What’s going on in Belarus is not only about my country… we are all connected.”	news
20.03.23 News Afghan women and girls are stripped of basic rights: UN Human Rights Council must take action	news
17.03.23 News Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice: Reforming South Korea’s electoral system is essential to eradicating inequality	news
16.03.23 News Acvitists still work in climate of fear 25 years after UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders	news
10.03.23 News Brazil must do more to protect the Yanomami people and their territory, we warned in UN joint statement	news
09.03.23 News Democratic institutions in Guatemala are being dismantled, we warn UN Human Rights Council	news
07.03.23 News UN Human Rights Council must prioritise Nicaragua’s indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples	news
22.02.23 News Five ways to join Right Livelihood Laureates in standing up against Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine	news
21.02.23 News How have Right Livelihood Laureates used arts and culture to create social change?	news
15.02.23 News Nominations are open: How our Research team is seeking new Right Livelihood Laureates	news
08.02.23 News Emergency: Italy has turned search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean into “a political issue”	news
07.02.23 News “This mandate should deal with the war:” Right Livelihood Laureates discuss the appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur on Russia	news
31.01.23 News Campaign Against Arms Trade faces UK government in court over legality of Saudi weapon sales	news
24.01.23 News Help us find the next Right Livelihood Laureates!	news
19.01.23 News Younger generations in Japan are joining Seikatsku Club “to better their life”	news
22.12.22 News Thirty years after their discovery, Latin America’s Terror Files are “fundamental pieces of memory and universal justice”	news
20.12.22 News Campaign Against Arms Trade has made weapons sales “embarrassing” for Western governments	news
19.12.22 News Laureate Manfred Max Neef’s book ‘Barefoot Economics’ is republished after 40 years	news
10.12.22 News Elena Zhemkova: “People in Russia who couldn’t stop this war bear this responsibility”	news
22.11.22 News Sima Samar: “Collective failure” allowed for Taliban takeover	news
10.11.22 News Sima Samar continues her work on women’s rights despite harrowing conditions under Taliban rule	news
07.11.22 News Tony Rinaudo: Regrowing trees generates hope, “the most important development tool”	news
02.11.22 News Indian Laureate Ela Bhatt, who fought for women’s labour rights, dies at 89	news
31.10.22 News Laureate Herman Daly, who brought economy and ecology together, dies at 84	news
27.10.22 News An evening to celebrate people challenging the status quo!	news
26.10.22 News Sima Samar: “Acts of genocide” are committed against Hazara community in Afghanistan	news
19.10.22 News Right Livelihood warns of human rights abuses and repression of activists during UN Human Rights Council	news
07.10.22 News Violations in Western Sahara and Brazil must be top priority for reviews of countries’ human rights record	news
07.10.22 News UN Human Rights Council must protect human rights defenders from reprisals	news
07.10.22 News Congratulations to three Right Livelihood Laureates on receiving joint Nobel Peace Prize	news
06.10.22 News International community must stand with Russian dissenters	news
27.09.22 News Ales Bialiatski held in dark basement cell by Belarus, we warn UN Human Rights Council	news
25.09.22 News The world needs a democratic Sweden, Right Livelihood Laureates appeal	news
22.09.22 News Ugandan LGBT+ organisations are under mounting pressure from the government	news
21.09.22 News Illegal gold miners pose “immediate threat” to Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Right Livelihood warns	news
20.09.22 News Saudi authorities silence human rights defenders with increasingly long prison sentences	news
15.09.22 News UN observers must urgently visit Western Sahara, Right Livelihood and ISACOM urge	news
14.09.22 News Indigenous communities suffer as Nicaragua shuts down NGOs that protect them	news
01.09.22 News We’re announcing the 2022 Right Livelihood Laureates on September 29!	news
31.08.22 News Basil Fernando: “Sri Lanka’s problem is the breakdown of the rule of law”	news
29.08.22 News Glorene Das joins Right Livelihood’s Board	news
25.08.22 News Introducing the 2022 Right Livelihood Jury	news
14.07.22 News Laureates highlight women’s rights, Belarus and LGBT+ people in Uganda during UN Human Rights Council	news
04.07.22 News Pat Mooney on the climate crisis: “If we keep doing it as we are, we will fail”	news
01.07.22 News Kasha Nabagesera: Uganda must decriminalise same-sex relations and combat homophobia and transphobia	news
01.07.22 News Gunilla Hallonsten elected as Right Livelihood’s new Chair of the Board	news
29.06.22 News Belarus must release all political prisoners and stop their ill-treatment, Viasna and Right Livelihood urge	news
29.06.22 News Paul Ekins, former Executive Director and current Chair of the Board, retires	news
28.06.22 News Raji Sourani: “The occupation wants to silence the truth” in Palestine	news
23.06.22 News Education, especially on women’s rights, is key to advancing equality	news
21.06.22 News Corruption will grow in Guatemala as attorney general dismantles judicial institutions, Right Livelihood warns	news
17.06.22 News Right Livelihood Laureates hope for change as Colombians vote for new president	news
17.06.22 News Mozn Hassan at UN: “Invest in girls and young women networks”	news
16.06.22 News Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities face risk of ethnocide, Right Livelihood warns at UN	news
03.06.22 News Save the Planet: Protect the Future / No Excuses for Inaction	news
01.06.22 News Jenny Jansson Pearce joins Right Livelihood as Deputy Director	news
24.05.22 News Event: Our best climate strategy would be to start taking economics seriously	news
23.05.22 News Bringing together law and youth climate action for meaningful change	news
12.05.22 News Reinhard Loske to serve as new Right Livelihood Board member	news
05.05.22 News Paul Walker: We must rekindle East-West dialogue instead of entering a new Cold War	news
30.03.22 News Cleared of charges, Mozn Hassan sees her ordeal as “a case study for how solidarity matters”	news
29.03.22 News Right Livelihood and Laureates highlight Russia, crackdown on civil society and Western Sahara at UN Human Rights Council	news
24.03.22 News Marthe Wandou – Realising rights and livelihoods in the Lake Chad Basin	news
22.03.22 News The UN should scrutinise Russia for committing human rights violations against its citizens	news
17.03.22 News Belarusian government is systematically eradicating civil society, Viasna and Right Livelihood say in joint statement	news
16.03.22 News Civil society activists are often imprisoned amid crackdown on dissent, Right Livelihood warns	news
16.03.22 News Laureates react to Russia’s war on Ukraine	news
11.03.22 News Illegal mining in Brazil threatens the lives and environment of indigenous peoples, Right Livelihood and Survival warn	news
10.03.22 News Dispatch UN observers to Western Sahara, Right Livelihood and ISACOM urge UN human rights chief	news
08.03.22 News Nicaragua must protect indigenous peoples and their land, Right Livelihood says in joint statement	news
08.03.22 News “Willing or not, they send everyone considered necessary,” says representative of Russian soldiers’ mothers	news
07.03.22 News Don’t forget Russian civil society, activists plead at UN side event	news
04.03.22 News Vladimir Slivyak warns of “high risk” of a Chernobyl-style nuclear accident in Ukraine	news
25.02.22 News Vladimir Slivyak: Putin laid groundwork for Ukraine attack by eliminating civil society at home	news
01.02.22 News “Sisterhood and solidarity” keep India’s self-employed women going	news
17.01.22 News Help us find the next Right Livelihood Laureates!	news
31.12.21 News A Look Back: Right Livelihood in 2021	news
10.12.21 News Human rights unite Right Livelihood Laureates	news
01.11.21 News An evening to celebrate people paving the way to a better future for all!	news
26.10.21 News Right Livelihood Laureates highlight Belarus, Western Sahara at UN Human Rights Council	news
22.10.21 News In welcome development, Egypt drops charges against Mozn Hassan	news
01.10.21 News Come work with us: We’re looking for a Research Officer!	news
24.09.21 News Belarus must release detained Viasna activists and all other political prisoners	news
22.09.21 News Moroccan repression is increasing in Western Sahara, Aminatou Haidar warns	news
20.09.21 News Saudi Arabia must release all imprisoned human rights defenders, Right Livelihood says in joint statement	news
15.09.21 News Lottie Cunningham warns UN Human Rights Council of possible ethnocide in Nicaragua	news
06.09.21 News From nominees to Right Livelihood Laureates: How does it happen?	news
01.09.21 News We’re announcing the 2021 Right Livelihood Laureates on September 29!	news
19.08.21 News The world must act to support Afghans, especially women and girls	news
13.08.21 News Humanitarian Gino Strada, who treated victims of war, dies at 73	news
11.08.21 News Come work with us: We’re looking for a communications consultant!	news
03.08.21 News Behind the scenes: How does Right Livelihood vet nominees?	news
16.07.21 News Change-makers highlight Belarus, women’s rights at 47th session of UN Human Rights Council	news
14.07.21 News Belarus must release Ales Bialiatski and other Viasna members detained today	news
12.07.21 News Carmel Budiardjo, campaigner for human rights in Indonesia, passed away at 96	news
05.07.21 News Belarus must stop targeting civil society, Viasna and Right Livelihood tell UN rights body	news
01.07.21 News Aminatou Haidar: Stop the Moroccan abuse and let Sahrawi civil society flourish	news
29.06.21 News Sexual violence goes too often unpunished in Egypt, Mozn Hassan warns	news
25.06.21 News Sima Samar: Accessing reproductive health is a basic human right	news
24.06.21 News Women’s rights must also protect indigenous women, Lottie Cunningham Wren says	news
23.06.21 News UN Secretary-General is “concerned” over imprisoned Iranian Laureate Nasrin Sotoudeh	news
14.06.21 News Why have we changed our website and look?	news
31.05.21 News The Yanomami struggle against illegal mining in Brazil	news
21.05.21 News Chipko Movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna dies at 94	news
12.05.21 News Inspiring Change in Times of Crisis – Conversations that Matter Series	news
12.05.21 News Inspiring Change through Culture	news
04.05.21 News UN experts condemn human rights violations against Aminatou Haidar and other Sahrawi activists	news
21.04.21 News A year after imprisoned Saudi activist Abdullah al-Hamid’s passing, NGOs call for accountability and release of all human rights defenders	news
20.04.21 News Still no answers one year after Saudi activist died in prison	news
25.03.21 News Highlights of the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council	news
16.03.21 News “Never before have we faced such a critical human rights situation” denounces Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski	news
15.03.21 News Human Rights Center “Memorial” condemns Russia’s massive crackdown on civil society	news
11.03.21 News Mozn Hassan denounces Egypt’s failure to uphold women’s rights	news
10.03.21 News Iran must release Nasrin Sotoudeh, her husband tells the UN	news
09.03.21 News Women’s rights should not be just a “side event,” experts say in discussion on feminist foreign policy	news
03.03.21 News Feminist Foreign Policy and Its Implications for Women Human Rights Defenders	news
26.02.21 News HRC 46 : Belarus must end the prosecution of peaceful activists and release all political prisoners	news
25.02.21 News HRC 46 : Nicaragua must protect indigenous peoples and their defenders	news
17.02.21 News The Right Livelihood Foundation strongly condemns crackdown on Belarusian human rights activists and organisations	news
20.01.21 News Call for Nominations: Right Livelihood Award 2021	news
05.01.21 News Indigenous rights activist and 1993 Laureate Carrie Dann passes away	news
10.12.20 News Human Rights Day: 10 Right Livelihood Laureates standing up every day for Human Rights	news
09.12.20 News Official Launch of the Right Livelihood Centre of the University of Zurich	news
25.11.20 News Right Livelihood Laureates at the forefront of eliminating violence against women	news
20.11.20 News Webinar with 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate Ales Bialiatski	news
20.11.20 News Lecture with 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate Bryan Stevenson	news
20.11.20 News Webinar with 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate Lottie Cunningham Wren	news
22.10.20 News Join us virtually in honouring the 2020 Right Livelihood Laureates on December 3	news
15.10.20 News 2007 Laureate Percy Schmeiser, who stood up against Monsanto, passes away at 89	news
11.09.20 News The Right Livelihood Foundation mourns 2004 Laureate Swami Agnivesh	news
07.09.20 News The Right Livelihood Foundation mourns the passing of 1981 Laureate Mike Cooley	news
20.08.20 News El 1º de octubre se anuncian los Premios Right Livelihood 2020	news
17.08.20 News 2020 Right Livelihood Laureates to be announced on October 1	news
14.08.20 News Medellín Poetry Festival set to be “largest virtual meeting of poets” ever, founder says	news
13.08.20 News Newly-launched Manfred Max-Neef Foundation to carry on work of 1983 Laureate	news
11.08.20 News UN experts request answers from Saudi Arabia about Abdullah al-Hamid’s death	news
16.07.20 News Almost 40 Laureates sign Greta Thunberg’s letter to EU leaders	news
03.07.20 News Sima Samar: COVID-19 could “change the social structure forever” in Afghanistan	news
03.07.20 News Sima Samar: “Fighting jets and sophisticated military items are not going to protect us against the reactions of nature”	news
29.06.20 News Reema Nanavaty of Self Employed Women’s Association: “Pandemics and economic crises set in motion a spiral descent into starker poverty”	news
29.06.20 News Self Employed Women’s Association: COVID-19 has set in motion “a spiral descent into starker poverty”	news
22.06.20 News #MinersOutCovidOut: Yanomami leaders launch global campaign	news
19.06.20 News International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Highlighting the need for a holistic approach to survivors care	news
18.06.20 News Carmel Budiardjo urges respect for political freedoms as she turns 95	news
16.06.20 News Krishnammal Jagannathan at 94: “Try to solve every problem in a non-violent way!”	news
12.06.20 News COVID-19 and Human Rights: Interview with 1995 Laureate András Biró	news
26.05.20 News COVID-19 and Human Rights: Interview with Anna Dobrovoloskaya, Executive Director of Memorial Human Rights Center	news
21.05.20 News Op-Ed: Don’t Let the Saudi Government Co-opt the Feminist Struggle	news
19.05.20 News The Right Livelihood Foundation welcomes German court decision curbing foreign spying	news
15.05.20 News COVID-19 and Human Rights: Interview with 2015 Laureate Kasha J. Nabagesera	news
08.05.20 News COVID-19 and Human Rights: Interview with 2013 Laureate Raji Sourani	news
03.05.20 News World Press Freedom Day 2020: Celebrating courageous journalists	news
30.04.20 News COVID-19 – Virtual briefing with UN Special Procedures mandate holders	news
29.04.20 News COVID-19 and Human Rights – Interview with 2017 Laureate Khadija Ismayilova	news
22.04.20 News Op-Ed: Why COVID-19 is a chance for us to “regreen our mindscapes”	news
09.04.20 News UN High Commissioner on the implications of COVID-19 on human rights worldwide	news
08.04.20 News A Dose of Inspiration: How to stay positive and keep activism going amidst COVID-19	news
22.03.20 News Interview: 6 Questions for Robert Bilott	news
19.03.20 News The Right Livelihood Foundation mourns 2009 Laureate Dr. Catherine Hamlin, a champion for women’s health	news
17.03.20 News Update from the Right Livelihood Foundation concerning COVID-19	news
15.03.20 News 40th Anniversary Conference in Bangkok	news
20.01.20 News The Right Livelihood Foundation mourns the passing of Turkish environmentalist and 2012 Laureate Hayrettin Karaca	news
07.01.20 News Moroccan police prevented Sahrawi activists from celebrating 2019 Laureate Aminatou Haidar	news
22.11.19 News Press releases 2019 Right Livelihood Award to be Presented in Stockholm 4 December	news press-releases
31.10.19 News Press releases The new Right Livelihood Award Sculpture is made from recycled illegal guns	news press-releases
14.10.19 News Highlights from the 42nd Human Rights Council Session	news
11.10.19 News On the 10th anniversary of the establishment of ACPRA, NGOs jointly call on Saudi authorities to release all detained members	news
18.09.19 News Sima Samar appointed Afghanistan’s Human Rights Minister	news
15.07.19 News Highlights from the 41st Human Rights Council Session	news
21.05.19 News Press releases Mukwege Foundation Impacts UN Human Rights Review of Democratic Republic of the Congo	news press-releases
20.05.19 News Mohamed Idris has Passed Away	news
15.05.19 News German Parliamentarians Concerned about the Electoral Process in Guatemala	news
15.04.19 News Press releases Five Years since Saudi Right Livelihood Award Laureate was Imprisoned	news press-releases
03.04.19 News Highlights from the 40th Human Rights Council Session	news
14.03.19 News Press releases 2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureate Runs for President in Guatemala	news press-releases
08.03.19 News “We don’t only need women in positions of power, we need feminist women”	news
08.03.19 News “We are experiencing a women’s revolution”	news
05.03.19 News Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Council side event calls for accountability for rights abuses including torture and incommunicado detention of women’s rights defenders	news
27.02.19 News Do you want to fundraise for the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’?	news
27.02.19 News Join our team as the Head of Planning (Maternity Cover)	news
20.02.19 News Final Nail in the Coffin for Press Freedom in Turkey?	news
21.12.18 News Calling all creative minds! Are you our next Communications & Graphic Design Trainee?	news
10.12.18 News Celebrate 70th Anniversary of Human Rights – Support Reformists Instead of the Regime in Saudi Arabia	news
09.11.18 News Paul Ekins New Chair of the Board	news
03.10.18 News 5 Highlights from the Human Rights Council Session	news
14.09.18 News Fundación Myrna Mack brings the situation of human rights in Guatemala to the Human Rights Council in Geneva	news
10.09.18 News The Right Livelihood Award Foundation joins 750 organisations in welcoming the new High Commissioner for Human Rights	news
30.03.18 News Dr. Samuel Epstein has passed away	news
11.02.18 News Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer and Laureate Asma Jahangir has passed away	news
01.12.17 News 2017 Ceremony Live Stream	news
21.11.17 News Press releases 2017 Right Livelihood Awards to be Presented 1 December at the Vasa Museum, Stockholm	news press-releases
02.11.17 News Journalism is Not a Crime	news
27.10.17 News Right Livelihood Award Foundation mourns Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo	news
22.08.17 News The World Loses Climate and Nuclear Disarmament Champion Tony de Brum	news
26.07.17 News Colombia’s First Poetry Festival in Times of Peace	news
24.05.17 News Remembering Apartheid Critic and Educator Patrick van Rensburg	news
10.01.17 News The Right Livelihood Award Foundation Mourns the Loss of Justice C.G Weeramantry	news
27.10.16 News 100 Days since the Failed Coup in Turkey	news
10.10.16 News Right Livelihood Award Foundation condemns listing Russia’s Memorial as “Foreign Agent”	news
07.10.16 News Colombia Peace Deal “great choice” for Nobel Peace Prize, but a long road to lasting peace still lies ahead	news
27.09.16 News The Right Livelihood Award Foundation Mourns the Loss of the ‘Father of Permaculture’ Bill Mollison	news
16.09.16 News Snowden: A Reluctant Celebrity	news
14.09.16 News Laureates of the 2016 Right Livelihood Award to be announced on 22 September	news
26.08.16 News Right Livelihood Award Laureates Celebrate Historic Verdict in Argentina	news
22.07.16 News Tackling Zika, Naturally	news
06.07.16 News Why end world hunger by 2030? We have the moral obligation to end it now: Swami Agnivesh	news
24.06.16 News International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Dignity Comes First	news
17.06.16 News Music Breaks the Chains	news
26.04.16 News The Chernobyl Secret Protocols: Lies in the Aftermath of Disaster	news
20.04.16 News Denis Mukwege: Rape As A Weapon Of War In The Democratic Republic of Congo	news
23.03.16 News Hate Speech: A New Strategy Against Human Rights Defenders	news
07.03.16 News Laureate Leads Historic Nuclear Disarmament Hearings at ICJ	news
25.02.16 News Memorial: Dark Memories Bring Light to the Former USSR	news
22.02.16 News Right Livelihood Laureates Pool Expertise to Make Nepal Green	news
13.02.16 News Airways for Good: Celebrating World Radio Day	news
12.02.16 News Laureates Issue Open Letter to King of Saudi Arabia	news
02.02.16 News One Month Left Until 1 March Nomination Deadline	news
16.12.15 News Laureates Hail Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change	news
14.08.15 News Laureates Show Solidarity with Patkar’s Protest	news
11.06.15 News Letter of solidarity to Laureate Zafrullah Chowdhury	news
03.06.15 News NSA surveillance programme reformed by new legislation	news
22.05.15 News Hissene Habré trial to begin on 20 July	news
19.05.15 News LUCSUS report on global health and climate change published	news
20.04.15 News Laureates react to Award to Golden Rice researchers by the White House	news
26.03.15 News Habré’s agents convicted of torture	news
16.03.15 News The Guardian launches new series on climate change	news
28.02.15 News Jumanda Gakelebone in South Africa to discuss hunting ban	news
24.02.15 News McKibben to hold second Right Livelihood lecture at Santa Cruz	news
18.02.15 News Laureate elected to district council in Botswana	news
26.01.15 News International Energy Advisory Council launched	news
21.01.15 News Founder of Lokayan (RLA 1985) dies at age 86	news
03.01.15 News Panzi Hospital’s accounts seized	news
17.12.14 News RLA Laureates on the UN climate talks in Lima	news
28.11.14 News The impact of the 2014 Right Livelihood Awards	news
30.10.14 News RLA solidarity mission to Gaza	news
22.10.14 News Denis Mukwege receives 2014 Sakharov Prize	news
13.08.14 News Three Laureates ask Pope Francis to take a stance against GMOs	news
13.07.14 News Gaza: “Violence has gone too long” – Raji Sourani	news
24.06.14 News Father Gerard Pantin (Founder of SERVOL) passes away	news
13.06.14 News Zurich to become a blue community	news
11.06.14 News Juan Pablo Orrego fosters environmental victory in Chile	news
24.04.14 News First Right Livelihood Lecture at RLC Santa Cruz campus	news
21.03.14 News Parliaments towards a nuclear weapon free world	news
11.12.13 News Paul Walker at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony honouring OPCW	news
06.12.13 News Zafrullah Chowdhury takes part in hunger strike for a peaceful Bangladesh free of political violence	news
28.11.13 News The significance of Right Livelihood Award for the 2013 Laureates	news
11.11.13 News Right Livelihood College opens first campus in Latin America	news
08.11.13 News Right Livelihood Laureates demand immediate release of Greenpeace activists	news
22.10.13 News Scientists Say ‘No Consensus on GMO Food Safety’	news
21.10.13 News Right Livelihood Award Foundation organised Solidarity Visit to India	news
16.07.13 News Laureates condemn nuclear power expansion plans	news
11.07.13 News Mycle Schneider presents World Nuclear Industry Status Report	news
06.07.13 News Poetry Festival of Medellín starting today	news
02.07.13 News Hissène Habré to face war crimes trial	news
01.07.13 News Regional Conference of Latin American Laureates	news
27.06.13 News Global shock over World Food Prize to GMO executives	news
24.06.13 News Nuclear report incites wake up call in Korea Times	news
11.06.13 News Daniel Ellsberg speaks out for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden	news
31.05.13 News New web app from CAAT reveals EU arms export info	news
24.05.13 News Former dictator Ríos Montt’s genocide verdict annulled	news
20.05.13 News Ecuador rejected ASO’s offer to co-host the 2014 Dakar Rally	news
07.05.13 News Survival and CIMI call upon IACHR to save the Awá	news
03.05.13 News 100 years Robert Jungk	news
24.04.13 News Laureates sign petition directed to government of Peru	news
05.04.13 News Solidarity visit in Brazil	news
25.03.13 News RLA solidarity visit for Brazilian activists	news
22.03.13 News New attempts of uprooting Bushmen	news
14.03.13 News Trident Ploughshares organises disarmament camp Aug 26 – Sep 7	news
13.03.13 News RLC Bonn call for workshop scholarschips	news
13.03.13 News Two Laureates speak out against nuclear reactor in Northern Argentina	news
19.02.13 News CPT: Ongoing attacks and death threats	news
18.02.13 News Several Laureates signed open letter in support of ongoing Colombian peace process	news
15.02.13 News Success for Survival International as gas giant backtracks	news
12.02.13 News Sankaralingam Jagannathan passes away at age of 100	news
11.02.13 News Jacqueline Moudeina to represent victims in Habré trial	news
31.01.13 News Dutch Court Ruling Against Shell	news
31.01.13 News MST leader Cícero Guedes killed	news
12.12.12 News CAAT calls for investigation of use of Swedish weapons in Burma military operations	news
03.12.12 News Swami Agnivesh attacked in Bhopal	news
23.11.12 News Memorial defies the law on “foreign agents”	news
20.11.12 News Karaca’s court trial	news
19.10.12 News Some updates on SEKEM’s activities	news
19.10.12 News RLA Solidarity Visit to Chad	news
11.10.12 News CAAT Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade links	news
08.10.12 News “Teaching Right Livelihood” released	news
21.09.12 News Statement by Memorial on the Law on “Foreign Agents”	news
17.08.12 News Chico Whitaker warns of ‘nuclear two class society’	news
10.07.12 News World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 published	news
18.06.12 News Rosalie Bertell 1929-2012	news
18.06.12 News Right Livelihood College Workshop in Bonn	news
28.05.12 News Disarmament for Sustainable Developement	news
24.05.12 News Back Seat Heroes – Photo Exhibition about our Laureates	news
10.05.12 News The Economies of the Commons	news
13.03.12 News Right Livelihood Award Laureates against Angra 3	news
13.03.12 News Don’t invest in dirty oil	news
24.02.12 News Uri Avnery comments on Administrative Detention	news
24.02.12 News GRAIN releases new data on land grabbing	news
11.11.11 News 16th Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s killing	news
26.09.11 News Wangari Maathai passes away	news
14.07.11 News Dekha Ibrahim Abdi 1964 – 2011	news
16.06.11 News Memorial chairman cleared of charges	news
15.06.11 News RLA signed open letter on Geoengineering	news
13.06.11 News Pentagon Papers officially released	news
23.05.11 News Rachel Avnery 1932 – 2011	news
10.05.11 News The foreseeability of nuclear disasters	news
06.05.11 News Stop the Patagonian Megadams	news
26.04.11 News 25th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster	news
18.04.11 News Mycle Schneider on energy and political power	news
13.04.11 News Workshop scholarship for RLC event available	news
04.04.11 News Juliano Mer-Khamis killed	news
29.03.11 News Belo Monte – The dialogue that never happened	news
28.03.11 News Joint Statement on Japanese Nuclear Disaster	news
21.03.11 News Daniel Ellsberg arrested	news
17.03.11 News Open letter from Judge Weeramantry	news
12.03.11 News Nuclear accident in Japan	news
12.03.11 News Laureate organisation ‘deeply concerned’	news
28.01.11 News Controversial Belo Monte Dam construction started	news
27.01.11 News Right to water – victory in court	news
20.12.10 News Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria, RLA 2010) detained and later released	news
01.12.10 News Upcoming: The 2010 Award Ceremony	news
30.11.10 News COP16 to kick off in Cancun today	news
24.11.10 News Christopher Weeramantry launches memoires	news
23.11.10 News University launches lecture series on Laureates	news
10.11.10 News Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa	news
22.10.10 News Sign petition to help the Kalahari’s Bushmen	news
22.10.10 News Pat Mooney (Canada, RLA 1985) on geo-engineering	news
15.10.10 News Hermann Scheer 1944-2010	news
30.09.10 News 2010 Right Livelihood Awards	news
18.09.10 News Day three of the Anniversary Conference	news
17.09.10 News Democracy Now! in Bonn	news
17.09.10 News University of Bonn: Right Livelihood College Campus	news
16.09.10 News The 30th Anniversary Conference commences	news
16.09.10 News Day two of the Anniversary Conference	news
04.09.10 News Laureates sign open letter to Botswana President	news
30.07.10 News Maude Barlow about UN declaration on right to water	news
15.07.10 News Maude Barlow advocating for right to water	news
07.07.10 News The Poetry Festival of Medelln celebrates its 20th anniversary	news
09.06.10 News News from the Right Livelihood College	news
20.04.10 News People’s climate summit in Bolivia	news