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- ⏳ Final countdown to nominate for the 2026 Award! Solomon from 2025 Laureate PISFCC and their nominator, Neshan, remind us: 🔹 Look to the people creating real change 🔹 Bring their work to global attention If you know they deserve it, nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- ⏰ Today is the last day to nominate ⏰ As 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org says: creating real change takes years, but submitting a nomination takes only a fraction of that time. ✨ And don’t let language stop you. AI tools can help! Nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/get-involved...
- If you’re finalising your nomination for this year’s Right Livelihood Award, here’s 2025 Laureate Julian Aguon’s tip for making a strong nomination! Nominate by January 30 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- Pacific communities are leaving ancestral graves behind. Relocations with nowhere left to go. Climate change as an unravelling of rights 🌊 Accepting the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, Julian Aguon delivered a speech that placed the room inside those realities. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkF...
- 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org at the Award Presentation on turning polarisation into democratic renewal, and why “AI must not divide us with outrage.” Civic hacker, global voice, poet. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIr...
- 🚨 Deadline extended 🚨 So many of you are already nominating people who are leading change, defending rights and building solutions for the Right Livelihood Award — and we want to make sure no one misses the chance! New deadline: January 30, 2026 Submit now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- They’ve told this story many times: why the Pacific is at risk and why the law must respond. Still, Belyndar Rikimani and Solomon Yeo of PISFCC shared it with grace and deep love for their islands at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Presentation. Watch 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=ShGo41EQH6c
- Does one nomination really matter? 🤔 As Belyndar Rikimani of 2025 Laureate PISFCC emphasises, nominations for the Right Livelihood Award raise awareness not only of the work people are doing across the world, but also of the challenges they're facing. Nominate now 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- Still thinking about nominating for the 2026 Right Livelihood Award? 🤔 As Alsanosi Adam of 2025 Laureate Emergency Response Rooms reminds us, you never know how one nomination can change a life. Submit now! ➡️ rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- Emergency Response Rooms’ Alsanosi Adam, receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, spoke about the people keeping Sudan alive and why visibility 👁️ matters. With a 🇸🇩 flag worn as a cape and the Sudanese community behind him, listen 👉 youtu.be/s2t3NpAbFKA
- 😍 When a Right Livelihood Laureate passes the mic back to you! At the 2025 Award Presentation, @audreyt.org invited everyone to nominate for the 2026 Award, reminding the audience that change-makers don’t surface by accident. 🎥 Watch the moment and submit 👉 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- #Cooperatives work. Better than we’re told. With 2025 named the International Year of Cooperatives, the Award Presentation spotlighted Right Livelihood Laureates Seikatsu Club in Japan and Cecosesola in Venezuela, who are building people-run alternatives. Watch ⤵️
- Voting begins today in Myanmar, under military control and repression. Speaking for 2025 Laureate @justiceformyanmar.org, @amnesty.org's Montse Ferrer spelt out what we can do to stand with the people of Myanmar: 💸 Check where pension money is invested 📣 Call on governments to stop cutting aid
- “The world is watching. The Myanmar people’s revolution will prevail.” On the eve of the junta’s planned election, watch @thunberggreta.bsky.social deliver @justiceformyanmar.org’s words at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Presentation, calling out a sham vote and the systems behind military rule.
- ✨ One night. Many voices. Shared power. Dive into our visual story capturing the best moments from the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Presentation. Speeches, music, quotes and connection, all in one place. 👉 Explore the story ⤵️ bit.ly/3YGcArT
- At the start of the 2025 Award Presentation, Executive Director Ole von Uexkull challenged a familiar idea of power and pointed to another one: collective action. A reminder that change doesn’t begin with authority, but with people. 🎧 Watch the clip ⤵️
- Know someone already shifting reality on the ground? Your nominee could become the next Right Livelihood Laureate! Don’t just applaud them. Put their name forward. NOMINATE BY JAN 16, 2026 👇 rightlivelihood.org/nominate
- ‼️ Ales Bialiatski is free ‼️ We welcome the release of the 2020 Right Livelihood Laureate and Viasna colleagues after 3+ years of unjust detention. Many others, including Marfa Rabkova, remain jailed. Full justice must include them ✊ Read our statement and follow @freeviasna.org for latest info ⤵️
- This #HumanRightsDay, meet defenders for whom exile is rupture and reinvention. Through our work with the Global Campus of Human Rights, they rebuild across borders and keep protecting #OurEveryDayRights. Their stories show how they continue. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3YiKu5M
- Transformative change is already taking root throughout the world ✨ As we celebrate this year’s Right Livelihood Laureates, we’re looking for the next courageous people building a just, peaceful and sustainable world! Nominate for the 2026 Award by January 16 👉 bit.ly/3YOjqu2
- The 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates stood together in Stockholm — except for @justiceformyanmar.org, who could not travel due to security risks. Yet their courage, and the courage of 🇲🇲 people, remained deeply felt ✊ 🎥 Watch their speech delivered by @thunberggreta.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3KsHKjd
- “This award belongs to the people of Myanmar.” At the Right Livelihood Award Presentation, 2019 Laureate @thunberggreta.bsky.social read fellow Laureate @justiceformyanmar.org’s speech, dedicating the Award to youth, survivors and communities still resisting the junta. We stand with them.
- ✨ TODAY IS THE DAY ✨ Join us for an evening of celebration at the Right Livelihood Award Presentation with ⤵️ 💫 PISFCC 💫 Julian Aguon 💫 @justiceformyanmar.org 💫 @audreyt.org 💫 Emergency Response Rooms Tune in at 6:30pm CET 👉 rightlivelihood.org/2025-award-p...
- Yesterday, the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates gathered at our Stockholm office for a welcoming dinner ✨ Tomorrow, they take the stage. Join us as we honour courageous people reshaping our world from the ground up! 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
- Got plans for December 2? You do now 😉 Celebrate the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates — change-makers reshaping power from the ground up! Meet Audrey Tang @audreyt.org, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador, and fellow Laureates in Stockholm or online. Join us 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
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View full threadAI is slipping into our work, our searches, even our 2 am questions. Meanwhile, a few frontier labs are deciding how billions will use it. @audreyt.org and @zarinahagnew.bsky.social are making sure we aren’t sidelined. Watch and tell us what AI should learn!
- AI is racing ahead. Frontier models train daily, and whoever feeds them shapes our future. @audreyt.org and the Institute for Ethics in AI’s Caroline Green are steering tech toward civic care, humility and democracy. Watch and join us on Dec 2 as Audrey receives the 2025 Right Livelihood Award!
- 🇸🇪💰 Swedish pension funds investing in companies tied to Myanmar’s military is exactly the kind of scrutiny that earned @justiceformyanmar.org the 2025 Right Livelihood Award. Their work matters, and they do it anonymously for their safety. Read 👉 bit.ly/4irQLFK
- Done with rage-bait feeds and brain-melting scrolls? 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org has 3 fixes: 🔁 Leave platforms with ur own data 🤝 Bridge-building AI 🗳️ Youth deliberation before populism bites Are we really more divided, or just being told we are? 🤔
- Working with @audreyt.org, says @zarinahagnew.bsky.social, is like having a “poetic mirror” — someone who turns fuzzy thoughts into clarity and stays unfazed by dystopian noise. A steady, visionary voice the world needs. Explore our full deep dive on Audrey 👉 bit.ly/4aslsZc
- Ready to spend an evening with young leaders putting climate justice on the world’s agenda? 💙🌊 Celebrate the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates — change-makers reshaping power from the ground up. Meet the team from PISFCC and fellow Laureates in Stockholm or online. Join us 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
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View full threadIn 2019, Pacific law students formed PISFCC and set their sights on ICJ, which had never spoken on climate change. 6️⃣ years later, after Vanuatu and 130+ states backed them at the UN, the Court issued a climate opinion. Watch and join us in Stockholm/ online on Dec 2!
- What does success in climate justice look like? 🌏 Solomon defending home ✊ Vishal’s generation stepping up 🌿 Cynthia’s people living in dignity where they are Follow on Dec 2 as PISFCC receives the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
- Looking to restore your faith in what communities can do together? 💛 Celebrate the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates — change-makers reshaping power from the ground up! Meet Emergency Response Rooms from #Sudan and fellow Laureates in Stockholm or online. Join us 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
- Before knowing who the other Laureates were, Hajooj Kuka from Emergency Response Rooms spoke about why crises in Sudan — and Myanmar — so often go unheard. Without realising it, he was speaking about a fellow Laureate @justiceformyanmar.org. Different struggles, shared echoes.
- Vishal, Solomon and Cynthia grew up in island seas and forests now battered by storms. 🌊 With PISFCC, they helped win an ICJ climate opinion, and are ready to use it. Watch their story 👉 bit.ly/4ohK0HC and join us in Stockholm/ online for the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Presentation!
- "Top shot academics" flew in, wrote reports, left. Communities stayed. PISFCC students listened and carried those stories to ICJ, rallying 130+ states for a climate opinion. Hear them and join us in Stockholm/ online Dec 2 to see them receive the Right Livelihood Award!
- Meet the host of this year’s Right Livelihood Award Presentation ✨ We’re excited to welcome @nazaninemoshiri.bsky.social, journalist and senior advisor at the @berghoffnd.bsky.social, who will bring the 2025 Laureates’ stories to life on stage. Join us on December 2! 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
- Up for a night with people moving the world forward? ✊ Celebrate the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates — change-makers reshaping power from the ground up! Meet Julian Aguon, a human rights lawyer from Guam, and fellow Laureates in Stockholm or online. Join us 👉 bit.ly/3JxqHvM
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View full thread“There's no way to talk about Guam today without acknowledging hundreds of years of colonisation.” Julian Aguon speaks about life in a militarised colony — where even dreams can be pushed “onto a shelf.” Explore further 👉 bit.ly/47MWPF9
- “I have to do everything within my power to protect this place.” Julian Aguon reflects on his homeland, the Chamorro people, and the threats posed by US military expansion — and why defending Guam is at the heart of his work. His story 👉 bit.ly/47MWPF9 See him on Dec 2 at the Award Presentation!
- Kick off Monday with ideas that push democracy forward ⚡️ @crdefenders.bsky.social is hosting 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org for a breakfast seminar on Dec 1. Curious how tech can deepen trust and serve the public good? Don’t miss this conversation! 🔗 events.crd.org/bd-frukost-5
- What if you could spend real time diving into the stories of this year’s Right Livelihood Laureates? Join us Dec 1-2 at Kulturhuset as journalist Teldah Mawarire leads four 30-min conversations exploring their work, impact and the collective action behind it. 🔗 bit.ly/48ezWcM
- Join us in Geneva for our #UNForumBHR event on Indigenous women defending land and water! With 2024 Right Livelihood Laureate Joan Carling, María Quixtan and Ada Fidelina Pérez Pedrano. 🗓️ November 25 (Tuesday) | 8:30–9:30 CET 📍 Geneva Press Club 🗣️ EN/ES
- It’s #WorldChildrensDay! 26 years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, many rights still fall through the cracks, especially for children with disabilities. Together with Global Campus of Human Rights, we’re sharing a toolkit for anyone working with children! Explore 👉 bit.ly/4a4Fk4x
- Big Tech shows us the future they want. 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate @audreyt.org shows us what we actually need: Universal Sense-Maker. Civic Super-Facilitator. Human ↔ Planet Translator. 👀 Which one would you build first?
- Julian Aguon’s work starts long before the courtroom — it starts in the Pacific 🌊 Step inside his office: the tapa that greets you at the door, the map tracing the islands he stands with, and the Micronesian heart behind it all 🫶 Explore his story at bit.ly/47MWPF9 and hear from him live on Dec 2!
- What Julian Aguon fights for isn’t abstract — it’s alive. Butterflies, flowers, whole ecosystems 🦋🌺 Hear him read from “No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies” and meet the species at the heart of his legal work. More 👉 bit.ly/47MWPF9 Join us on Dec 2 to hear him live at the Award Presentation!
- We’re counting down to the 2025 Award Presentation! But here’s a secret: Next year’s Laureates could start with YOU! Nominations for the 2026 Right Livelihood Award are now open. If you know someone advancing practical solutions to global challenges, this is your moment! Nominate 👉 bit.ly/3YOjqu2
- “If we stop resisting Russian aggression, we cease to exist. Close the back doors.” #RightLivelihood Laureate @avalaina.bsky.social at UNIGE #HumanRightsWeek on justice before peace and stronger sanctions. Story in French via @rts.ch by @philipperevaz.bsky.social ⤵️
