Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins “alternative Nobel Prize”
Stockholm, SwedenReuters Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named on Wednesday as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize. Thunberg won the award “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,” the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement. Sixteen-year-old […]
Burkinabe farmer wins ‘alternative Nobel’ for drought-fighting technique
Thomson Reuters Foundation A farmer from Burkina Faso who popularised an ancient farming technique to reverse desertification is among the winners of Sweden’s “alternative Nobel prize”, announced on Monday. Yacouba Sawadogo shared this year’s award with three Saudi human rights activists – Abdullah al-Hamid, Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani and Waleed Abu al-Khair – and Australian agronomist Tony […]
‘Cursed’, blind female Ethiopian rights lawyer shares ‘alternative Nobel Prize’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Blind Ethiopian lawyer Yetnebersh Nigussie (left) and Rupert Roniger, CEO of Light for the World, in 2013. PICTURE: Light for the World. At just five-years-old, Yetnebersh Nigussie’s world went dark. After contracting a fever as a child, no amount of “holy water” or traditional medicine in rural Ethiopia was enough to stop […]