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Katharina Weise, Master student at Lund University, has received this year’s RLC fieldwork grant to carry out research on energy justice in relation to the Grand Renaissance Dam project in Ethiopia and its implications from a social and environmental perspective. Melaku Worede (Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1989 from Ethiopia) has endorsed the project and will…
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RLC Campus Lund, part of the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) is organising a series of RLC mini-lectures for students and teachers at one of the local high schools in Lund, Sweden. The lectures focus on climate strategies, energy justice, sustainable agriculture and carbon footprints, and are organised around the Right Livelihood Award…
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RLC Bonn PhD graduate Dr. Willis Okumu has published an article in The Journal of Modern African Studies in September 2017. The paper deals with livestock raids and pastoralist’s competition over water and pastures in north-western Kenya. It argues that you can find manifestation of local ethnic political conetests and rivalries in Samburu, Turkan, Pokot,…
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Tanzanian President John Magufuli appointed RLC junior scientists Dr. Abdallah Possi the new Tanzanian ambassador in Germany. After being the deputy minister of Tanzania (Policy, Parliament, Labour, Youth, Employment and Disabled) since 2015, his new position brings Abdallah Possi back to Germany: Possi participated in the RLC Bonn workshop “Mobilization for Change: Participatory research and…
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Chalmers University of Technology offers a new postdoc opportunity focused on sustainability and leakage dynamics in soy and beef supply chains in Latin America. This position is funded under a grant from the Swedish Research Council and is initially for two years. A focus of the work for this position will be to lead on…
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Argentina and other Latin American countries face family violence, particularly against women (e.g. “femicidio”: killing of women) and against those whose gender differs from their sex. At the same time patriarch y continues to be an accepted behaviour (“machismo”) that marginalizes girls and women. The Chair of Schools and Systems and the Campus Córdoba of…
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As a reaction to the horrendous effects of the 7.1 earthquake in Mexico, fearsome hurricane Maria in the Caribbean and the political developments between the United States of America and North Korea, Prof. Raúl Montenegro started broadcasting a radio program to inform and train people on issues such as “how to be prepared for facing nuclear…
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On September 26, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation announced the 2017 Laureates in Stockholm, Sweden: Robert Bilott (USA) “for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution, winning long-sought justice for the victims, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”(Honorary Award) Colin Gonsalves (India) “for his tireless and innovative use of public interest…
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RLC Campus Mumbai has given a “Right Livelihood Shield” to two students during the convocation at TISS in May 2017. TISS regularly awards outstanding students with academic prizes, shields, and medals. The prize winners were: Mr. Deepen Modi – Right Livelihood Shield to the Best Student in Field Work for Livelihood Promotion and Innovation in…
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Córdoba maintains less than 3% of native dense forests, yet the current provincial government is pushing for a bill that reduces the current protected surface of native forests from 4 million hectares to only 2 million hectares. To address this important issue, the RLC Campus Córdoba organised an educational role-play on May 31, 2017, at…
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