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The RLC Campus Port Harcourt organises an online Right Livelihood Lecture with 2009 Right Livelihood Award Laureate René Ngongo focussing on “Climate Change and Energy Alternatives”. Date & Time: June 19, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM WAT / 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CEST Kindly register to participate in the event here. Host: Dr Gladys Worlu,…
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The RLC Campus Santa Cruz and the Right Livelihood Foundation co-hosted a series of online conversations with Right Livelihood Award Laureates in spring 2020. If you have missed a conversation, we have collected them all below: April 19, 2020: Crisis & Opportunity: Building Solidarity Economics in the Age of Coronavirus & Beyond with Vandana…
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On May 29, Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Director of the Right Livelihood College Anwar Fazal guested the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Show LOVE LIGHT under the topic “Right Livelihood: Peace, Justice and the Environment”. He talked about the general idea of right livelihood which is promoted through education, research as well as practical activities and which contributes to…
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Fighting the coronavirus outbreak is challenging in India, especially for the poorest slum-dwellers who cannot implement social distancing and need to work to survive. Drinking water, food and medicines are scarce. Udaan, a field action initiative for dignified livelihoods for marginalised women in the slums of Mumbai, initiated by the Tata Institute for Social Science…
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Raúl Montenegro, who received the Right Livelihood Award “for his outstanding work with local communities and indigenous people to protect the environment and natural resources” and who is the coordinator of the RLC Campus Córdoba, has written an essay on the two pandemics which we are faced with today; COVID-19 and Climate Change. CORONAVIRUSES AND…
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The fifth edition of the “Conversations that Matter” series organised by the RLC Santa Cruz and the Right Livelihood Foundation is going to take place on May 27, 5 PM CEST (8 AM Pacific time). Right Livelihood Award Laureates Colin Gonsalves, Glorene Das/Tenaganita & Manfred Nowak from the Global Campus of Human Rights will discuss inequality and…
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On May 6, RLC Bonn researcher Ahmed Mohamed Abdalla Abdelaal presented a RLC project on “Transition towards sustainable agriculture: The Case of wheat-based production systems in Egypt” in an online colloquium at the Center for Development Research (ZEF). Ahmed works together with the Heliopolis University of SEKEM close to Cairo which received the Right Livelihood…
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How to stay positive and keep activism going from home amidst COVID-19? The Right Livelihood Foundation has put together a collection of resources to help staying positive and active – even from home. Find the RLF inspiration kit here.
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COVID-19 Pandemic: the emerging health rights issues in Nigeria and the rest of the worldby Fidelis Allen (RLC Campus Port Harcourt coordinator, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria) IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, among others, the vulnerability of economies, politics, policy, transportation, globalization, and energy to global health crises. It…
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This article has been first published on the Center for Development (ZEF) Blog. COVID-19 hits Uganda: livelihood impacts and mitigation measures scrutinized by Teddy T. Nakanwagi and Dorothy Birungi Namuyiga The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a lack of capacities and resources on the part of many central governments, especially in developing countries. Most governments…
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