Activists from Kenya, Cambodia are among ‘Alternative Nobel’ prize winners | Environment News

SOS Mediterranee refugee rescue group as well as environment and human rights defenders win the Right Livelihood Award.

Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel”, has been awarded to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.

The 2023 laureates “stand up to save lives, preserve nature and safeguard the dignity and livelihoods of communities around the world”, the awards foundation said on Thursday, adding that they “fight for people’s right to…