Right Livelihood

How are the Right Livelihood Laureates chosen — and what happens when the Jury disagrees? Hear three Jury members explain how they reach a decision, and meet the 2026 Laureates on September 30! Tune in at 8 am CEST ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nk-...

👏🏽📣 Justice For Myanmar welcomes charges against Telenor in Norway for violations of sanctions and complicity in crimes against humanity in Myanmar. Police raided the Telenor headquarters today. The charges follow a police complaint filed in Norway by Justice For Myanmar and ICJ Norway in 2024.

Press Release 📣 ASEAN Regional Forum must ban Myanmar junta from drone workshop and save lives ✅ Read the report on how the ARF drone workshop risks boosting the junta’s terror campaign here 👉🏽 buff.ly/gni6Bkc ✅ Read the press release online here 👉🏽 buff.ly/4d37TDt

"A luta continua." The struggle continues. Mariel Merayo from our team travelled with Right Livelihood Laureate Justiça Ambiental! to Mozambique, where communities face harm from mining and cement operations. But this isn't only a story of loss. It's a story of resistance. Read 👉 bit.ly/4yiTfN9

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 jailed for defending Cambodia’s environment. Thank you to everyone who wrote them a letter. They are not alone. #FreeMNC

Uganda’s “foreign agents” law threatens prison time for civil society groups receiving international funding. For Laureate Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) fighting destructive oil and gas projects, the stakes are existential. But they refuse to stop. Read 👉 bit.ly/4oMfdov

Women human rights defenders are being criminalised for speaking out. At #HRC62, we will bring together women defenders, UN experts and civil society to discuss gendered repression, protection gaps and accountability. Join us! 🗓️ June 25 🕒 10-11 📍 Room IX, Palais des Nations

After more than four years in a Belarusian penal colony, Right Livelihood and Nobel Prize Laureate Ales Bialiatski is free. But nearly 1,000 political prisoners in Belarus are still waiting. Ales hasn’t forgotten them. Neither should we. Read 👉 bit.ly/4uqPC6t @freeviasna.org

“People can free the future together.” Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org shows how technology can strengthen democracy rather than divide it, creating spaces where communities can listen, collaborate and find “uncommon ground” across differences! 🎥 youtu.be/GQgJe0Xh11o

Thanks for amplifying our voices! Thanks for not forgetting us! Thanks for not letting us down! Don't let the Israel-US-attack on Iran distract you from Palestine, not from violence by settlers and soldiers here in the Westbank, not from the still ongoing genocide in Gaza.

⚖️ A legal roadmap for climate accountability is finally here! Driven in part by 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates PISFCC and Julian Aguon, the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion is a major breakthrough. Now, they’re pushing to turn it into action. What happens next could shape our future! ➡️ bit.ly/4lDOAjY

🌍 #DAAD-funded #PhD #Scholarship: Protected & Conserved Area Management, nature conservation & local participation. For candidates from Central Asia, Caucasus & Mongolia. 📅 Deadline: 5.4.2026. 🔗 Details kurzlinks.de/17oi @zefbonn.bsky.social @rightlivelihood.org

Civil resistance against systems of oppression: Discover the Right Livelihood Collection in Salon Davis

Stories of courage, resistance and community power. Our latest book exhibition at the @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social brings together influential works by Right Livelihood Laureates who have challenged injustice for decades! 🗓️ February 24 – April 15 📍 Salon Davis (Library), @gvagrad.bsky.social

In honouring Rev. Jesse Jackson, 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate Bryan Stevenson reminds us: transformation requires defending those pushed aside by injustice or corporate power. And championing the silenced ⤵️

In a fragmented world, the #UNGA resolution endorsing the ICJ Climate Opinion offers a path back to cooperation. From the Pacific to the EU, this is about acting together. We stand with 2025 Laureate Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Vanuatu! #ClimateICJAO #ClimateJustice

If you’re looking for an internship where your work contributes to real impact, you’ve come to the right place ✨ Three Stockholm-based positions are open for application until February 22. Learn more and apply! ➡️ fuf.se/karriar/sokp...

Inside Iran’s crackdown: 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate Nasrin Sotoudeh on repression, resistance and her support for Jafar Panahi, whose film "It Was Just an Accident" won Palme d’Or & is now Oscar-nominated. 📖 @msmagazine.com by Jeff Kaufman 👉 bit.ly/40cn5E1

In 2025, we were humbled to be recognised with a Right Livelihood Award. 🎙️Watch our post-award interview with @svtnyheter.bsky.social available in English with Swedish subtitles. Joined by @amnesty.org. buff.ly/qrYudcQ @rightlivelihood.org

⏳ Final countdown to nominate for the 2026 Award! Solomon from 2025 Laureate PISFCC and their nominator, Neshan, remind us: 🔹 Look to the people creating real change 🔹 Bring their work to global attention If you know they deserve it, nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate

⏰ Today is the last day to nominate ⏰ As 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org says: creating real change takes years, but submitting a nomination takes only a fraction of that time. ✨ And don’t let language stop you. AI tools can help! Nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/get-involved...

If you’re finalising your nomination for this year’s Right Livelihood Award, here’s 2025 Laureate Julian Aguon’s tip for making a strong nomination! Nominate by January 30 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate

Pacific communities are leaving ancestral graves behind. Relocations with nowhere left to go. Climate change as an unravelling of rights 🌊 Accepting the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, Julian Aguon delivered a speech that placed the room inside those realities. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkF...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org at the Award Presentation on turning polarisation into democratic renewal, and why “AI must not divide us with outrage.” Civic hacker, global voice, poet. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIr...

🚨 Deadline extended 🚨 So many of you are already nominating people who are leading change, defending rights and building solutions for the Right Livelihood Award — and we want to make sure no one misses the chance! New deadline: January 30, 2026 Submit now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate

They’ve told this story many times: why the Pacific is at risk and why the law must respond. Still, Belyndar Rikimani and Solomon Yeo of PISFCC shared it with grace and deep love for their islands at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Presentation. Watch 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=ShGo41EQH6c

Does one nomination really matter? 🤔 As Belyndar Rikimani of 2025 Laureate PISFCC emphasises, nominations for the Right Livelihood Award raise awareness not only of the work people are doing across the world, but also of the challenges they're facing. Nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate

Still thinking about nominating for the 2026 Right Livelihood Award? 🤔 As Alsanosi Adam of 2025 Laureate Emergency Response Rooms reminds us, you never know how one nomination can change a life. Submit now! ➡️ rightlivelihood.org/nominate

Emergency Response Rooms’ Alsanosi Adam, receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, spoke about the people keeping Sudan alive and why visibility 👁️ matters. With a 🇸🇩 flag worn as a cape and the Sudanese community behind him, listen 👉 youtu.be/s2t3NpAbFKA

😍 When a Right Livelihood Laureate passes the mic back to you! At the 2025 Award Presentation, @audreyt.org invited everyone to nominate for the 2026 Award, reminding the audience that change-makers don’t surface by accident. 🎥 Watch the moment and submit 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate

#Cooperatives work. Better than we’re told. With 2025 named the International Year of Cooperatives, the Award Presentation spotlighted Right Livelihood Laureates Seikatsu Club in Japan and Cecosesola in Venezuela, who are building people-run alternatives. Watch ⤵️