Rights activists share Alternative Nobel

Source: Associated Press

Rights activists share Alternative Nobel
By MALIN RISING (AP) – 29 minutes ago

STOCKHOLM — Human rights and environmental activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year's Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel."

They are Nigeria's Nnimmo Bassey, chairman of Friends of the Earth International, Austrian-Brazilian Bishop Erwin Kraeutler, Shrikrishna Upadhyay for his fight against poverty in Nepal and Physicians for Human Rights Israel.

The recipients will split the euro200,000 ($270,000) cash award founded by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull in 1980 to recognize work he felt was being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

Bassey, 42, who is also director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria, was honored for standing up "against the practices of multinational corporations in his country and the environmental devastation they leave behind."


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