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	Right Livelihood Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award
		The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is presented annually in the building of the Swedish Parliament, usually on December 9, to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today".
		An international jury decides the awards in such fields as environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, peace, etc. The prize money is shared among the winners, usually four, and is equivalent to US$ 250,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Right_Livelihood_Award (321 words)

	Sahabat Alam Malaysia - Awards
		The Right Livelihood Foundation was established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull to honour and support such people through a programme of annual awards.
		In addition to supporting the recipients directly, an important purpose of the RLA is to spread their knowledge and experience and to show that problems which often look or small groups acting together and mobilising others for the common good.
		The Right Livelihood Awards are presented annually at a ceremony, held since 1985 in Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, on the day before the Nobel Prize presentations.
	www.surforever.com /sam/award.html (309 words)

	COSG - Right Livelihood Awards 1999
		The Organic Agriculture Group of the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians was overjoyed to learn that it had been conceded the distinction of the "Right Livelihood Award" for its work to develop the country's organic agriculture movement.
		The Group met immediately to communicate the news and to reflect on its scope and national significance in the desire to give fair recognition and ensure that no involuntary omission dimmed the collective elation that was by then being shared by many colleagues and followers of this movement in our country.
		We are also grateful to the Right Livelihood Award Foundation for bestowing this award on us and for the support from the Swedish Parliament.
	www.cosg.org.uk /award.htm (1261 words)

	Story, Print Version, UCLA International Institute
		As a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist, and through a combination of courage as a dissident, with an extraordinary breadth of published output and personal charisma, he has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalisation.
		Bello was born in Manila in the Philippines in 1945.
		Awarded annually in the Swedish Parliament, the Right Livelihood Award was founded in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-German philatelic expert who sold his stamps to start the fund and felt that the Nobel Prize ignored significant contributions by many from various fields and countries outside the North.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=5008 (2739 words)

	International IDEA \| Winner of the Right Livelihood Award Irene Fernandez meets IDEAWinner of the Right Livelihood ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fernandez, a Malaysian campaigner for the rights of the poorest – migrant workers, farm workers, domestic workers, prostitutes and AIDS sufferers in Malaysian society won the award “for her outstanding and courageous work to stop violence against women and abuses of migrant and poor workers”.
		She shares the award with Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Canadian activists for fair trade and a human right to water, and with Roy Sesana, the leader of the organisation First People of the Kalahari.
		The Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the “Alternative Noble Prize” was established in 1980 to honour individuals around the globe who valiantly uphold the principle of right livelihood: to have an honest occupation which fully respects other people and the world’s natural resources.
	www.idea.int /news/irene_fernandez.cfm?renderforprint=1& (401 words)

	Alan AtKisson - Right Livelihood Award Winners
		The Awards seek to identify people and projects whose work contributes to basic needs such as food and shelter, a clean environment, education of the human spirit, and the preservation of the planet.
		Winners share a $100,000 cash award to be used in furtherance of their projects, and an Honorary Award is also presented to a person whose work the judges wish to recognize but who is not primarily in need of monetary support.
		The Awards are presented in the Swedish Parliament on the day before the Nobel Prizes, and the 1988 winners are good examples of the Awards' values and scope.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC21/RightPP.htm (367 words)

	Kvinna till Kvinna
		The Right Livelihood Award is presented annually to people or organisations that work to find practical solutions to the world’s most pressing problems such as oppression, armed conflict and destruction of the natural environment.
		The 2002 award was shared between The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, the Jeunes Kamenge youth centre in Burundi, the human rights activist Martin Almada from Paraguay and solar cell research scientist Martin Green from Australia.
		The Right Livelihood Award Foundation was formed by Jakob von Uexkull in 1980 to establish an award to honour efforts for a different and brighter future.
	www.iktk.se:16080 /english/news/2002/021209_rla.html (382 words)

	Right Livelihood Award
		IBFAN is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 1998 Right Livelihood Award (RLA).
		The Award, commonly known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", was presented recently in Stockholm, Sweden.
		IBFAN shares the award with a Chilean activist, an American environmentalist and two peace workers from the war-torn Balkans.
	www.ibfan.org /english/resource/ibfo/issue1/livelihood.html (273 words)

	Alternative Nobel Prize - Right Livelihood Award 2000
		With the selection of these Award recipients at the start of a new millennium, the Award's international Jury has sought to highlight four of the key issues which will determine whether there is still a human civilisation to celebrate at the end of it.
		The Indonesian lawyer and human rights activist Munir, honoured "for his courage and dedication in fighting for human rights and the civilian control of the military in the world's fifth most populous country".
		Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament and are usually referred to as "Alternative Nobel Prizes".
	www.safe2use.com /ca-ipm/00-12-10.htm (426 words)

	Natural Life Magazine #41 - Children's Author Wins 1994 Right Livelihood Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Right Livelihood Jury honours her dedication to the rights of children to be brought up with love and respect for their individuality.
		The Award also celebrates her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature.
		The awards are traditionally presented in the Swedish Parliament on December 9th, the day before the Nobel Prize presentations.
	www.life.ca /nl/41/rightlive.html (361 words)

	Right Livelihood Award - Home Page
		The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support such people.
		A reception for the 25th Anniversary of the Right Livelihood Award in the European Parliament with 150 invited guests was hosted by MEPs Marie Anne Isler Béguin (France) and Hiltrud Breyer (Germany).
		The 2005 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony was held in the Swedish Parliament on Friday 9th December 2005 and presented by Jakob von Uexkull.
	www.rightlivelihood.org (401 words)

	'Alternative Honorary Nobel' for Francisco Toledo
		The 2005 Right Livelihood Award went to 65-year-old Mexican artist and philanthropist Francisco Toledo, founder and patron of a number of cultural institutions in his native Mexican state of Oaxaca.
		The Right Livelihood Award, with a prize of two million Swedish kronor ($230,000), was shared by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke from Canada, Irene Fernandez from Malaysia, and the organisation First People of the Kalahari and its founder Roy Sesana, from Botswana.
		The third co-winner of the award, Roy Sesana, is a leader of the Gana, Gwi and Bakgalagadi "Bushmen" in Botswana.
	www.banderasnews.com /0509/art-toledo.htm (357 words)

	Right Livelihood Ward Foundation-Press Release
		Epstein, who is a Professor of Occupational and Environmental medicine at the University of Illinois [at Chicago] and Chairman of the Cancer prevention Coalition, received the award for his "exemplary life of scholarship, wedded to activism on behalf of humanity".
		Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards were introduced "to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today".
		His scientific publications on the issue of environmental cancer date from the early 1960s, his first book was "The Mutagenicity of Pesticides" (1971), and his first listed broadcast, on CBS TV, was in 1969 on the hazards of environmental pollutants.
	www.preventcancer.com /about/livelihood.htm (1557 words)

	MANY TO MANY 66 - The Right Livelihood Award
		The Right Livelihood Award, which will this year be presented at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, 9 December, is shared by.
		The aims of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize, (founded in 1980), are "to honour and support those offerings practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today".
		She is Director of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights in Osijek in the East Slavonia region of Croatia.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /GlastonburyArchive/manymany/issue-66/mm-66e.html (1579 words)

	Sekem An Egyptian Initative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The award presentation ceremony in the Swedish Parliament will be held on December 8th 2003.
		The 2003 Right Livelihood Honorary Award honors New Zealand’s former Prime Minister David Lange, whom the Jury recognizes "for his steadfast work over many years for a world free of nuclear weapons".
		Further recipients of the 2003 Right Livelihood Award are Walden Bello and Nicanor Perlas (Philippine), and the Citizens Coalition for Economic Justice (South Korea), who will share the cash award of 2 million Swedish Krona with SEKEM.
	www.sekem.com /press2.htm (154 words)

	Speech of Nicanor Perlas - 2003 Right Livelihood Awardee
		Distinguished Speaker and Members of the Parliament, Jakob von Uexkull and the Right Livelihood Award Foundation Jury and Staff, Distinguished Guests, Ulrich Morgenthaler who nominated me, Kathryn, my wife and Christopher, our son, both of whom are with me tonight, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen.
		Before anything else, I would like to express my deep gratitude for having been found worthy by the jury of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation to be one of the recipients of their prestigious Right Livelihood Award for 2003.
		I realized, right there and then, that in the impossible is the real; in the impossible is the future waiting to be born.
	www.cadi.ph /Features/Feature_13_RLA_Speech.htm (1948 words)

	Irene Fernandez wins right livelihood award
		In 2005 I nominated Irene Fernandez of Malaysia for the award; the prestige and publicity may help free her finally from the sentence hanging over her head.
		The Right Livelihood Award was founded in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, a writer, lecturer, professional philatelist and past Member of the European Parliament, who holds Swedish and German nationality.
		The award recognizes and honours people and organizations that work for social justice, human rights and the preservation of the world.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /wolfwood_irene_fernandez.htm (1424 words)

	Environmental Awards - E-Files - Sierra Club
		In Sweden, for example, the Right Livelihood Award is devoted to very nearly the same ends.
		Like the Rolex Award, the Goldman Prize tends to sing the praises of the hitherto unsung - people like Lois Gibbs, the housewife who founded the Love Canal Homeowners Association to fight for environmental justice against local, state and federal governments.
		As Rolex explains, the funding is often vital to the ongoing work of the honorees, while noting that many of them find the global recognition the reward engenders even more beneficial, as it tends to validate their work at home and abroad.
	www.sierraclub.org /e-files/awards_rolex_2002.asp (451 words)

	XTRAMSN: Lange Wins Right Livelihood Award
		The former Prime Minister has won a Right Livelihood Award, considered by some as an alternative Nobel prize.
		The awards are presented annually by the Swedish Parliament to recognise people who encourage social responsibility and respect for the natural world.
		Janet Frame has missed out on a Nobel Prize after she was tipped to have been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature for the second time.
	xtramsn.co.nz /news/0,,12078-2717358-52_12254_true,00.html (223 words)

	Right Livelihood Award
		The 2005 Honorary Right Livelihood Award goes to one of Mexico’s greatest living artists and community philanthropists, Franscisco Toledo.
		The SEK 2 million Award is shared by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke from Canada, Irene Fernandez from Malaysia, and the organisation First People of the Kalahari, and its founder Roy Sesana, from Botswana.
		Founded in 1980 the Right Livelihood Awards are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament and are often referred to as “Alternative Nobel Prizes”.
	www.hollynear.com /africa.page/right.live.award.html (386 words)

	Right Livelihood Awards
		The Award exists to strengthen the positive social forces that is recipient’s represent and provides support and inspiration needed to make these people models for the future.
		Presented annually in Stockholm at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, there are normally four recipients of the award of whom one is chosen for special commendation through a ‘Honorary Right Livelihood Award’.
		In this edition of GVNR we are going to look at Awards and Award Winners; telling the inspiring tales of people who are recognised for striving to improve life for the planet and its people.
	www.gvnr.com /104/1.htm (816 words)

	Nicanor Perlas Awarded Alternative Nobel Prize
		Nicanor Perlas was among the recipients of The Right Livelihood Award (RLA) announced today in Sweden.
		The RLA is also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and was established in 1980 to honor and support individuals who uphold the principles of right livelihood.
		“This Award exists to strengthen the positive social forces that its recipients represent and to provide the support and inspiration needed to make them a model for the future.” In the past 20 years, over 100 individuals from 48 countries have received this prestigious recognition.
	www.cadi.ph /Features/Feature_13_RLA.htm (469 words)

	Right Livelihood Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		WASHINGTON - December 7 - The recipients of this year's Right Livelihood Awards (often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prizes') arrived in Stockholm on Tuesday.
		Irene Fernandez from Malaysia fights for the rights of the poorest and most vulnerable in Malaysian society - migrant workers, farm workers, domestic workers, prostitutes and AIDS sufferers.
		The Right Livelihood Awards will be presented in the Swedish Parliament on Friday 9 December at 18:00.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2005/1207-16.htm (446 words)

	John Gofman, 1992 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While a graduate student in physical chemistry in 1942, Gofman proved the fissionability of uranium 233 and developed the process with which he and his co-workers successfully isolated the first workable quantity of plutonium and discovered several radioactive isotopes of uranium and protoactinium.
		The Right Livelihood Award fully associates itself with Gofman's demand for a `Watchdog Authority' to ensure that these rules are observed in Chernobyl and other important radiation studies.
		Bio-Medical "Un-Knowledge" and Nuclear Pollution: A Common-Sense Proposal by John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., on the occasion of the Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, December 9, 1992.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/CNR/RLA92.html (548 words)

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		Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Award is presented annually in the Swedish Parliament and is often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize".
		The award recipients are always distinctive and different from previous years, but over time their collective work amounts to an affirmation of hope in the human future, despite overwhelming present problems and challenges."
		The Right Livelihood Award, which has become known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", was originally created and endowed by Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-German national who sold his valuable stamp collection to fund it.
	www.zuvuya.net /cad_galeria_nc_ver_E.asp?cod_capa=1146&site=E&pasta=survival0021&tipo_mat=ns (366 words)

	The E. F. Schumacher Society • Publications
		Ten years ago I presented the Right Livelihood Award to a very remarkable woman who had gone into public life to represent, in her own words, the interests not just of her fellow beings but of animals and plants and of future generations.
		The Right Livelihood Awards were set up to honor and support those working on practical solutions to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
		Jakob von Uexkull is the founder and chairman of the Right Livelihood Award.
	www.schumachersociety.org /publications/uexkull_92.html (5076 words)

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