2021
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Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation (VENHF), Mirzapur
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Give Me Trees Trust, Delhi
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Sulabh International
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Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), Delhi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Delhi-based environmental organisation Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) has received the 2021 Right Livelihood Award. It has been awarded for its “grassroots approach of empowering vulnerable communities to protect their livelihoods and claim their right to a clean environment.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Somali-born Fartuun Adan and her daughter Ilwad Elman are in Stockholm to receive the 2022 Right Livelihood Award. They have been honored for their fight for human rights despite facing dangers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ukrainian rights defender Matviichuk was crowned this year’s Right Livelihood Award winner jointly with her Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), which also won the Nobel Peace Prize in October.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Delhi-based environmental organisation “Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)” has been felicitated with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, an international honour, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”. It has become widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and there are now 137 Laureates from 58 countries.