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From 3rd to 6th March, 20 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, will gather in Mumbai. This is the first conference of Asia-‐Pacific Laureates since the inception of the prestigious Award in 1980.
During the landmark event, which will be hosted by the Centre for Livelihoods & Social Innovation at TISS, Mumbai, Laureates will share solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the Asia-‐Pacific region today. They will discuss their struggles, experiences, and knowledge with students and researchers at TISS, with Indian civil society organisations, and with the broader Indian public.
The 4-‐day conference is a golden opportunity for students, Mumbaikars, and journalists to interact with some of the most creative and influential minds from the Asia-‐Pacific region.
The 20 Laureates attending the special event represent 11 countries: India, China, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, South Korea, Nepal, Afghanistan, and New Zealand.
Apart from eight Laureates from India, the event will convene several international guests. For instance, Huang Ming from China, one of the world’s most successful solar entrepreneurs, will be in attendance, as will Sima Samar, eminent human rights advocate from Afghanistan, and Sulak Sivaraksa, veteran social and Buddhist activist from Thailand.
Journalists will have the unique opportunity to interview internationally renowned experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists in the fields of human rights, environment, consumer protection, renewable energy, and social justice.
For more information visit: http://www.rightlivelihood.org/mumbai2015.html
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Venue: Library Conference Hall, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Programme Overview:
3rd March: Laureates will partake in closed-‐door deliberations.
4th March: Laureates will visit civil society groups in Mumbai for a dialogue on common challenges in the fields of peace, sustainable energy, human rights, gender justice, and the environment, discussing ways to overcome these challenges. Laureate Huang Ming will also be introducing the Micro-‐Emission Earth Plan and a new Solar Cooker in a dedicated interaction with journalists and representatives of the media.
5th March: Select Laureates will participate in a public panel discussion on the topic "Transforming Livelihood: Creating an Enabling Environment for Civil Society in the Asia-‐Pacific". Key Indian government officials, policymakers, diplomats, and civil society activists have been invited to this public event, which will take place from 11am to 1pm at the Library Conference Hall, Main Campus, TISS. In the afternoon, Laureates will engage in public thematic seminars with TISS faculty and students.
6th March: Concluding discussions.
List of Attending Laureates:
• PIDA, represented by Susil Sirivardana, Sri Lanka (1982 Laureate) • Lokayan, represented by Vijay Pratap & Ovais Sultan Khan, India (1985 Laureate) • Ladakh Ecological Development, rep. by Lobzang Tsultim, India (1986 Laureate) • Seikatsu Club Consumers' Coop., rep. by R. Shimizu et al., Japan (1989 Laureate) • Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan, India (1991 Laureate) • Hannumappa R. Sudarshan/VGKK, India (1994 Laureate) • Sulak Sivaraksa, Thailand (1995 Laureate) • KSSP, rep. by Professor P.K. Raveendran, India (1996 Laureate) • IBFAN Asia/BPNI, rep. by Dr. Arun Gupta (1998 Laureate) • Suciwati, widow of Munir, Indonesia (2000 Laureate) • CCEJ, rep. by Hogyun Kim, South Korea (2003 Laureate) • Irfan Engineer, son of Asghar Ali Engineer, India (2004 Laureate) • Swami Agnivesh, India (2004 Laureate) • TENAGANITA, rep. by Glorene A. Das, Malaysia (2005 Laureate) • Ruth Manorama, India (2006 Laureate) • Alyn Ware, New Zealand (2009 Laureate) • Shrikrishna Upadhyay/SAPPROS, Nepal (2010 Laureate) • Huang Ming, China (2011 Laureate) • Sima Samar, Afghanistan (2012 Laureate) • Basil Fernando, AHRC, Hong Kong (2014 Laureate)
RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD FOUNDATION:
Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament and are often referred to as “Alternative Nobel Prizes”. They were introduced “to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”. Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-‐German, provided the original funding. Since then the Awards have been financed by individual donors. There are now 158 Right Livelihood Award Recipients from 65 countries. (http://www.rightlivelihood.org)
RIGHT LIVELIHOOD COLLEGE:
The Right Livelihood College (RLC), with 7 campuses around the globe, is a capacity building initiative of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Since its inception in 2009, it aims to harness and spread the knowledge and experience of Right Livelihood Award Laureates. The 7th RLC Campus was inaugurated on 18th August 2014 in Mumbai. It is hosted by the Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation (CLSI) at the School of Social Work, TISS. It is the first and only RLC Campus in South Asia. The RLC Campus at TISS provides a learning-‐cum-‐innovation platform to create synergies between the Centre's research, teaching, policy engagement, and praxis & the work of Laureates in the fields of livelihoods, social innovation, social justice, rights, & empowerment. (http://www.rightlivelihood.org/college.html)
RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD FOUNDATION—REGIONAL CONFERENCES:
This is the third in a series of Regional Conferences organised by the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and funded by Church of Sweden, following successful recent meetings in Bogota, Colombia (2013) and Cairo, Egypt (2014). The conference is being hosted at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), the Right Livelihood College's South Asian campus.
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