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Standing up for human courage since 1980. A just, peaceful and sustainable world is in the making.

Established in 1980, Right Livelihood honours and supports courageous people solving global problems. Housed under the umbrella of a foundation, Right Livelihood is a courage-powered community for social change committed to peace, justice and sustainability for all. Each year, Right Livelihood highlights change-makers through an Award. To date, 182 Laureates from 72 countries have received the dis

tinction. By recognising the actions of brave visionaries and building impactful connections around the world, Right Livelihood boosts urgent and long-term social change. However, the work of Right Livelihood goes beyond only presenting the Award: they provide these change-makers with life-long support. Right Livelihood is a megaphone and a shield for the Laureates: raising their profile, providing them protection when their lives and liberty are in danger, and educating people on their innovative solutions. Find out more about the Award:
https://rightlivelihood.org/what-we-do/the-right-livelihood-award/

Learn more about the Laureates:
https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/

31/07/2026

When corporate power operates across borders, movements must organise across them too ✊

For ten years, the Maputo Workshop on Corporate Impunity and Human Rights has brought together affected communities, social movements, activists, lawyers, journalists and researchers from across Africa and beyond.

Our Advocacy Officer Mariel Merayo joined this year’s tenth edition in Mozambique, organised by 2024 Right Livelihood Laureate organisation Justiça Ambiental (JA!).

Over the past years, the workshop has grown beyond an annual gathering into a sustained political process, connecting struggles, building collective knowledge and strengthening action against the economic, political and legal structures that enable corporate impunity.

Read JA!’s reflections on a decade of resistance and collective action 👉 https://bit.ly/4vV2pOp

30/07/2026

What does environmental justice look like through a feminist lens? 🎙️

Created by Universität Zürich students as part of an interdisciplinary lecture series organised by the Right Livelihood Centre Zurich, the new episodes explore:

🎧 Women workers, economic power and environmental justice in India, with Reema Nanavaty of 1984 Laureate SEWA

🎧 Gender-based violence, climate-related displacement and access to justice in Cameroon, with 2021 Laureate Marthe Wandou

🎧 Colonial extraction, collective rights and Indigenous feminist visions of justice in Nicaragua, with Anexa Alfred Cunningham from the Miskitu community

🎧 The social and economic structures underpinning climate injustice, featuring Right Livelihood’s own Camilla Argentieri alongside experts and researchers.

Together, the conversations show why climate justice cannot be separated from gender equality, collective rights and the leadership of affected communities!

Listen now ➡ https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/sustainability-now/id1758115642

16/07/2026

What happens when Right Livelihood Laureates meet researchers working on some of today’s most urgent challenges? 🎙️

This podcast series from the brings together 2025 Laureates and researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology for conversations spanning climate justice, technology, and community resilience.

🌊 Vishal Prasad of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change meets Åsa Persson to discuss climate change and international climate governance.

💻 Audrey Tang 唐鳳 meets Elina Eriksson to explore how technology and artificial intelligence can serve people and the planet.

🤝 Hajooj Kuka of Emergency Response Rooms المنتدى التضامني لغرف الطوارئ - السودان meets Henok Girma Abebe to reflect on community-led crisis response and resilience.

Three conversations connect frontline experience with academic research, exploring how knowledge, action and solidarity can help shape a more just future!

Listen to all 3 episodes ⤵️
https://climateactioncentre.podbean.com/

02/07/2026

Two years since their conviction.

On July 2, 2024, five Mother Nature Cambodia activists — Ly Chandaravuth, Long Kunthea, Phuon Keoraksmey, Thun Ratha, and Yim Leanghy — were convicted and imprisoned immediately for defending Cambodia’s environment. They remain scattered across the country, isolated from each other and their loved ones.

Thank you to everyone who wrote a letter at the Bibliothèque IHEID Book Exhibition. Your words of encouragement and solidarity are a reminder that their fight for justice matters and that they are not alone.

Two years is too long. Share this post and join us in calling for their immediate release!

17/06/2026

A new "foreign agents" law in Uganda threatens up to 10 years in prison for civil society organisations that receive international funding.

For Right Livelihood Laureate Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), which fights to protect Ugandan communities from destructive oil and gas projects, the consequences could be devastating.

"AFIEGO could crumble," says Programmes and Communications Manager Diana Nabiruma.

But she and her colleagues refuse to stop.

Read more ➡️ https://rightlivelihood.org/news/civil-society-could-crumble-under-ugandas-new-foreign-agents-law/

16/06/2026

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ years of courage, service and solidarity!

Today, we celebrate Krishnammal Jagannathan, Right Livelihood Laureate and lifelong Gandhian activist, on her 100th birthday.

Known as "India's Soul," Krishnammal has spent a century living the vision of justice in practice — fighting for land rights, dignity and sustainable livelihoods for some of India’s most marginalised communities.

Alongside her husband Sankaralingam, she has stood with Dalits, landless people and communities threatened by landlords and multinational corporations.

On the ground. Every day.

“We must feel we are coming together, joining together spiritually and economically on a community basis.”

Happy 100th birthday, Krishnammal 🎂

10/06/2026

🇪🇭 is Africa’s last colony.

After 50 years of illegal occupation, its people are nearing a breaking point.

Right Livelihood Laureate and human rights defender Aminatou Haidar describes a harrowing reality for the 600,000 Sahrawis living there.

As the international community looks the other way, Moroccan settlers displace locals, and a generation of youth is forced to flee, with faith in a peaceful solution disappearing.

Today, Sahrawis make up less than 25% of the population in their own homeland.

Aminatou’s message to the world is clear:
Do not let this injustice happen in silence.

Read the full interview ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vCaisa

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27/05/2026

What does it take to make human rights more than words on paper? 🤔

For Theo van Boven, it meant a lifetime of work to place them at the centre of international law.

The Dutch lawyer and scholar, who received the Right Livelihood Award in 1985, worked across the UN, academia, government and civil society to make human rights protections real and enforceable.

He pushed the UN to confront violations honestly — enforced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary executions — and challenged the idea that different countries should be held to different standards.

He passed away on May 9, at the age of 91.

“His legacy will live on in the many different arenas his work spanned and among the Right Livelihood community,” said Ole von Uexkull, Right Livelihood’s Executive Director.

We honour his life, his courage and his lifelong commitment to justice.

🔗: https://rightlivelihood.org/news/theo-van-boven-who-put-human-rights-at-the-centre-of-international-law-passes-away-at-91/

25/05/2026

Right Livelihood and Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski spent over four years in a Belarusian penal colony before his release alongside 122 other political prisoners.

During that time, he endured isolation, punishment cells and denied medical care.

Now, as he speaks out, his story stands as a powerful reminder: nearly 1,000 political prisoners in Belarus are still waiting for their release.

Ales hasn’t forgotten them. Neither should we.

Hear his experience firsthand ➡️ http://bit.ly/4uqPC6t

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