Noble causes receive ‘alternative Nobel’ prizes at ceremony

ORGANISATIONS from Burundi and Sweden working to overcome ethnic hatred, a Paraguayan torture victim and an Australian scientist have been presented with Right Livelihood awards, known as the “Alternative Nobel” prizes.

The awards were handed out at a ceremony in the Swedish parliament a day before the Nobel Prizes are presented.

Sweden's Speaker of Parliament, Bjoern von Sydow called the winners "indispensable building blocks in the fight for fair, democratic and sustainable development in the world".