Aid organization SOS Méditerranée, environmental activists from Cambodia and activists from Ghana and Kenya were honored in Stockholm with the Right Livelihood Award.
This year’s winners are witnesses to unspeakable suffering and are committed to saving lives, preserving nature and protecting the dignity and livelihoods of people around the world, the foundation said.
For example, SOS Méditerranée saved the lives of approximately 39,000 migrants in the Mediterranean.
Three representatives of Mother Nature Cambodia, women’s rights activist Eunice Brookman-Amissah from Ghana, Kenyan environmental activist Phyllis Omido and Caroline Abu Sa’da from SOS Méditerranée in Switzerland accepted the awards, known as Alternative Nobel Prizes, on Wednesday (see video below).
The Right Livelihood Award
The prize has been awarded every year since 1980 to courageous personalities and organizations committed to human rights, the environment and peace. This year’s winners were announced at the end of September.
The prize is at a critical distance from the actual Nobel Prizes, whose winners will receive their awards in just over a week and a half in Stockholm and Oslo.
Source: Krone
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