What is the Right Livelihood Award?
Q: What is the Right Livelihood Award?
A: The Right Livelihood Award is an international award presented each year in early December, which honours those who are working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today.
Q: Who started the Right Livelihood Award?
A: The prize was started in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull.
Q: Who decides the awards for the Right Livelihood Award?
A: An international jury, invited by the five regular Right Livelihood Award board members, decides the awards.
Q: In what fields are the awards given?
A: The awards are given in fields such as environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, and peace.
Q: How much money is shared among the winners of the Right Livelihood Award?
A: The prize money is shared among the winners, usually numbering four, and is EUR 200,000.
Q: Who are some of the people and organizations that have received the Right Livelihood Award?
A: The prize has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organizations, including Mycle Schneider, Amory Lovins, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Memorial, Mordechai Vanunu, and Petra Kelly.
Q: What is the Right Livelihood Award also known as?
A: The Right Livelihood Award is also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.
