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Greta Thunberg One Of 4 Winners of The 2019 Right Livelihood Award
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Greta Thunberg, Swedish teenage climate activist was named on Wednesday as one of 4 winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize. Thunberg, 16, called out world leaders at the UN on Monday for failing to tackle climate change in a speech at the start of a climate summit in New York. She started solitary weekly protests outside Swedish parliament a year ago. Inspired by her, millions of young people poured onto streets around the world last Friday to demand governments attending the summit take emergency action.
Thunberg shares the award with Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa of the Yanomami people, Chinese women's rights lawyer Guo Jianmei and Western Sahara human rights defender Aminatou Haidar. "With the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, we honour four practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a liveable future for all on planet Earth," the foundation said in the statement. The four laureates will received a cash award of 1 million Swedish crowns ($103,000) each.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-award-right-livelihood/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-wins-alternative-nobel-prize-idUSKBN1WA0L8