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Human rights activists detained after rally in Moscow |  |
On Sunday the 31st of January, about 300 people gathered on Triumphalnaya Square in Moscow to peacefully protest for their constitutional right to free assembly.
Russian police forces detained about 100 people, among them Oleg Orlov, head of the human rights group Memorial (RLA 2004). The detainees were released the day after, but were asked to appear in court later that week.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation has sent a protest to the Russian Embassy in Stockholm.
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Tackling climate change through SDRs | |
IMF Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has taken up Jakob von Uexkull’s and the WFC’s suggestion to finance climate security and climate justice in developing countries through Special Drawing Rights, SDRs. The idea is to create a new multi-billion dollar “Green Fund” that could provide up to $100 billion a year.
SDRs are reserve assets created by the IMF. Such SDRs would not cause inflation if used to build new sustainable facilities, like wind-farms and solar-panels, Jakob von Uexkull, Founder and Chairman of the RLA, says. Money creation in this manner could finance a global Green New Deal. "This offers possibly the biggest entrepreneurial chance of all times.”
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Nuclear energy, proliferation, oil and climate | |
Already in the 1980s, Amory Lovins noted that “nuclear power is both the main driving force behind proliferation and the least effective known way to displace oil.”
With the controversy about Iran's nuclear programme heating up once more these days, Lovins' recent article about linking an efficient, clean-energy, climate safe economy to prosperity, oil displacement and national security seems very timely.
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Deadline for proposals approaching | |
We would like to inform you that the deadline for any proposals for the 2010 Right Livelihood Awards is the 1st of March. If you want to nominate a candidate, you will find all the information you need in our guidelines for proposals. Please note that you need to send your proposal by regular mail to our office in Stockholm.
