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Human rights defenders in exile call for stronger protection systems
Many of the rights people enjoy today exist because human rights defenders have challenged abuses of power, often at great personal risk. Yet the space for that work is shrinking. According to the CIVICUS Monitor, only 3 per cent of the world’s population lives in countries where civic space is fully open, while more than 72 per cent live under repressed, obstructed or closed civic space. As repression expands, increasing numbers of defenders are forced to continue their work from exile.
Women Laureate Hub holds retreat in Istanbul to strengthen connection and peer learning
Members of Right Livelihood’s Women Laureate Hub kicked off 2026 with a retreat in Istanbul designed to create space for connection and reflection. Inspired by the Women Health Project led by the 2003 Laureate SEKEM, the January gathering was shaped as a collective pause, centred on storytelling, embodied practices and small-group conversations. A core highlight was the solidarity that emerged.
Backed by 18 fellow Right Livelihood Laureates, Vladimir Slivyak urges European Court to hear Russian Climate Case
2021 Right Livelihood Laureate Vladimir Slivyak is sending a letter to the European Court of Human Rights calling on the Court not to drop the Russian Climate Case and to ensure it is heard. Filed on 31 August 2023, Ecodefense, Moscow Helsinki Group and Others v.
Environmental justice leader Nnimmo Bassey joins Right Livelihood’s Board
Environmental justice leader and 2010 Right Livelihood Laureate Nnimmo Bassey has joined Right Livelihood’s Board as of October 1, 2025, for a four-year term. “Joining the Board is a humbling experience that places a huge responsibility on me, given the scope of what Right Livelihood does and stands for,” Bassey said.
“See us as human beings”: Issa Amro brings standing ovation, full house to Berlin
On 19 June, Publix Berlin was packed to the rafters as 2024 Right Livelihood Laureate Issa Amro took the stage for a live conversation with Deutschlandradio’s chief correspondent Stephan Detjen. Co-organised by Right Livelihood and Amnesty International Germany, the event drew hundreds eager to hear from one of Palestine’s most persistent nonviolent voices.
Waleed Abu al-Khair has spent 11 years in prison—He’s still Saudi Arabia’s conscience - Right Livelihood
On July 6, 2025, 2018 Right Livelihood Laureate Waleed Abu al-Khair marks 11 years behind bars in Saudi Arabia. He recently spent his 46th birthday in a prison cell. His twelfth in detention. A brilliant lawyer and one of the most courageous human rights voices in Saudi history, Abu al-Khair is best known for defending peaceful reformers like Raif Badawi and for opening the doors of his own home in Jeddah to young people seeking change.
Right Livelihood and Laureates of the Award call for the release of Mother Nature Cambodia activists
ONE YEAR WRONGFULLY BEHIND BARS “Silencing brave youth won’t stop the truth. The world is watching. We will not stop until they are free.” — Sun Ratha, Mother Nature Cambodia activist On 2 July 2024, five environmental defenders from 2023 Right Livelihood Laureate Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC) were sentenced to prison for exposing ecological destruction and speaking out against corruption.
Ales Bialiatski and Viasna must be freed: Right Livelihood urges UN action on Belarus crackdown
Right Livelihood has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to demand the immediate release of Ales Bialiatski, 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and his colleagues at the Human Rights Center “Viasna“, who remain unjustly imprisoned in Belarus.
Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib on how women resist conflict, patriarchy and exclusion
What does it mean to fight for justice and human rights in times of conflict, repression and political transition, while being excluded from decision-making because you are a woman? In this exchange, 2012 Right Livelihood Laureate Dr Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and legacy holder of 2012 Laureate Dr Gene Sharp, explore how gender adds a profound and often dangerous layer to the struggle for rights.
The cost of speaking truth to power: Helen Mack-Chang on corruption and impunity
Guatemalan human rights defender and 1992 Right Livelihood Laureate Helen Mack-Chang has spent decades fighting impunity following the extrajudicial killing of her sister, anthropologist Myrna Mack. Speaking during the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York in March 2025, she shared how corruption and impunity fracture democracy, silence dissent and disproportionately impact women, especially in Latin America.
Indigenous women, collective rights and global resistance: a conversation with Joan Carling
What does it mean to defend rights and land as an Indigenous woman, in systems shaped by patriarchy, racism and exclusion? In this conversation, Indigenous rights advocate and 2024 Right Livelihood Laureate Joan Carling reflects on how women are central to the defence of land, life and community, yet are often excluded from decision-making in both state institutions and traditional structures.
Who gets to dream? Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib on education, power and gender apartheid
What does it mean to treat education as a form of resistance, especially when access to learning is denied as a means of control? In this exchange, 2012 Right Livelihood Laureate Dr Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and legacy holder of 2012 Laureate Dr Gene Sharp, sat down for a candid, peer-to-peer conversation on how education is both weaponised and reclaimed in contexts of conflict and repression.
How to resist authoritarianism without burning out
As repression deepens across the globe, people are resisting—not with megaphones or viral headlines, but with strategic action, unlikely alliances and the quiet power of staying put. That was the heart of a live conversation we hosted on 2 June 2025.
Global rights, local battles: What we took to the 58th UN Human Rights Council
From Nicaragua to Cambodia, our advocacy spotlighted threats to civic space, environmental defenders and Indigenous rights — standing up to repression where Laureates are most at risk. Right Livelihood’s Advocacy team participated in the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), held in Geneva from 26 February to 4 April 2025.
In Syria, a nation returns home — and the White Helmets rise to a new mission - Right Livelihood
The 2016 Right Livelihood Laureate organisation Syria Civil Defence, better known as the White Helmets, were once globally revered for pulling survivors of bombings from the rubble during Syria’s civil war. While the airstrikes have stopped, their mission has expanded and now involves a broader, more sustained and multifaceted set of challenges: from unexploded ordnance and mass graves to fires, displacement and the slow, painful task of rebuilding.
Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro targeted following BBC documentary appearance
Right Livelihood strongly condemns the recent escalation of threats and harassment against Palestinian human rights defender and 2024 Right Livelihood Laureate Issa Amro, following his appearance in the BBC documentary The Settlers. On 3 May, Amro’s home in Hebron was raided by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The incursion, captured on video and widely circulated by international media, shows settlers breaking into and vandalising his home. When Israeli soldiers arrived, they did not intervene.
Cambodia’s Supreme Court upholds imprisonment of Mother Nature activists
We strongly condemn today’s decision by Cambodia’s Supreme Court to deny bail to five environmental defenders from 2023 Right Livelihood Laureate Mother Nature Cambodia. “Jailing young Cambodians for speaking up to protect nature is an attack on human rights, free expression and the future of our planet. We stand in full solidarity with them and call for their immediate and unconditional release,” said Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director of Right Livelihood.
International organisations call for the immediate release of Iranian human rights activist Reza Khandan
The Feminist Majority Foundation, PEN America, Right Livelihood, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and more than 1,600 activists from around the world are raising their voices to protest the ongoing arbitrary detention of Iranian human rights defender Reza Khandan and demand his immediate and unconditional release. Reza Khandan, a prominent human rights advocate, and his wife, the renowned human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, have long been targeted by Iranian authorities.
'March for Life' marks new chapter at this year's Washington march – [your]NEWS
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Thousands of abortion opponents plan to rally in Washington on Friday for the 50th annual “March for Life,” marking a new chapter for a movement that has organized for decades around a overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that recognized a women’s right to an abortion.
Hurricane hunter says Ian’s eyewall flight was ‘worst I’ve ever been on’
By Temis Tormo (Reuters) – A hurricane hunter who plunged into the eye of Hurricane Ian hours before it plowed into Florida’s Gulf Coast with catastrophic force on Wednesday described the storm as the “worst” of his career. “I have flown storms for the last six years. This flight… was the worst I’ve ever been on,” aerospace engineer Nick Underwood told Reuters following a reconnaissance mission to assess one of the most powerful storms on record to hit the United States.
Restrições a eleitores nos EUA decepcionaria Martin Luther King, diz filha do ativista
Por Temis Tormo (Reuters) - A filha de Martin Luther King Jr. acredita que o líder pela luta pelos direitos civis, assassinado na década de 1960, ficaria decepcionado com as iniciativas em algumas partes dos Estados Unidos para restringir o direito ao voto. "O que está acontecendo agora não iria surpreendê-lo, mas decepcioná-lo", disse Bernice King, que é diretora-executiva do Centro King para a Mudança Social não-violenta em Atlanta.
U.S. states restricting voting rights would disappoint Martin Luther King, daughter says
"What's going on right now would not surprise him, it would disappoint him, " said Bernice King, who serves as chief executive of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.
U.S. states restricting voting rights would disappoint Martin Luther King, daughter says
Please try another search More More WorldJan 12, 2022 01:20PM ET © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bernice King, daughter of MLK Jr., speaks during a rally against the state's new voting restrictions outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 8, 2021.
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