Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has become the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award. The annual prize, also known as the Alternative Nobel, will be awarded in the Swedish Parliament in December.

The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honor and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”.

Congratulations to the other three recipients as well: Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan, and their organization LAFTI–the Land for the Tillers’ Freedom–in India. They received the Award “for two long lifetimes of work dedicated to realizing in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development, for which they have been referred to as "India”s soul."

To Asha Hagi of Somalia. She received the award “for continuing to lead at great personal risk the female participation in the peace and reconciliation process in her war-ravaged country.”

And Monika Hauser of Germany, who receives the Award “for her tireless commitment to working with women who have experienced the most horrific sexualized violence in some of the most dangerous countries in the world, and campaigning for them to receive social recognition and compensation.”

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