Alternative Nobel laureates were announced. Appreciate the merits that are ignored by the Nobel Committees

Activists and organizations from the Pacific, Mjanmy (Burma), Taiwan and Sudan became the winners of this year's Right Liverihood Award – announced on Wednesday in Stockholm. The distinction is called an alternative Nobel Prize.

Lawyer Julian Aguon with a student organization from the Pacific (PISFCC) They were honored for bringing a matter of climate justice to the International Court of Justice (MTS). The UN judicial authority issued in June that rich industrialized countries have special duties in the field of climate policy. It was considered that the lack of actions could violate international law.

The Right Livelyhood Foundation, which was based in Stockholm, also distinguished a secret A group of activists Justice for Myanmarfighting with the military junta and b. Minister of Taiwan Digitization Audrey Tang for creating a map of the availability of masks during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as for fighting disinformation. The fourth laureate are volunteers from giving food in a civil war of the organization Sudan Emergency response rooms.

Right Livehood Award, funded by the Swedish-German finance and philanthropist Jakob von Uexkuella, It has been awarded since 1980 for merits, which its artists are ignored by the Nobel Committees. In the past, however, it happened that the winners later received the Nobel Peace Prize. This was the case with Congress gynecologist and defender of women's rights Denis Mukwege and Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandra Matwijczuk, head of the Center for Civic Freedom.

The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner will take place on October 10 in the capital of Norway Oslo.

From Stockholm Daniel Zyśk (PAP)

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