Environmental and human rights activists awarded ‘Alternative Nobel’ prizes

SOS Mediterranee was named one of the winners (AP)

The Right Livelihood Award – known as the “Alternative Nobel” – has been awarded to environmental activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human rights defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants 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 award foundation said, adding that they “fight for people’s right to health, safety, a clean environment and democracy”.