Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award celebrates and supports people of vision. People who have ideas and apply them in concrete initiatives for the public good. They give hope for tomorrow, for a world in peace and balance. They demonstrate how we can overcome oppression, war, poverty, the destruction of our environment, and a widespread sense of meaninglessness and fear.
Today, Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka), Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Kenya), and Percy and Louise Schmeiser (Canada) will share the award with The company Grameen Shakti (Bangladesh). I met Percy here in Tokyo and would like to congratulate him and his wife, as well as the others!
The Jury honours Percy and Louise Schmeiser "for their courage in defending biodiversity and farmers' rights, and challenging the environmental and moral perversity of current interpretations of patent laws".
There award ceremony is held in the Swedish Parliament Building in Stockholm.
In 2005, TIME Magazine named Jakob von Uexkull a "2005 European Hero" and dedicated one page in its October 10, 2005 issue to him and his projects. What is "Right Livelihood"? TIME notes that adopting the Buddhist concept of “right livelihood”— which teaches that each individual is responsible for his or her actions and should take only a fair share of the earth’s resources — the emphasis of the prizes is on practical solutions to the main challenges of our time.
Today, Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka), Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Kenya), and Percy and Louise Schmeiser (Canada) will share the award with The company Grameen Shakti (Bangladesh). I met Percy here in Tokyo and would like to congratulate him and his wife, as well as the others!
The Jury honours Percy and Louise Schmeiser "for their courage in defending biodiversity and farmers' rights, and challenging the environmental and moral perversity of current interpretations of patent laws".
There award ceremony is held in the Swedish Parliament Building in Stockholm.
In 2005, TIME Magazine named Jakob von Uexkull a "2005 European Hero" and dedicated one page in its October 10, 2005 issue to him and his projects. What is "Right Livelihood"? TIME notes that adopting the Buddhist concept of “right livelihood”— which teaches that each individual is responsible for his or her actions and should take only a fair share of the earth’s resources — the emphasis of the prizes is on practical solutions to the main challenges of our time.
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