'Russia's war crimes have systematic character' Right Livelihood laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk

Change-makers from around the world have been recognized by the Right Livelihood Awards for the role they're playing in trying to make the world a better place. This year, 175 change makers from 77 countries were considered for the award, which has been dubbed the alternative Nobel Prize. The laureates were announced in Stockholm and presented by Ole von Uexkull, executive director of the Right Livelihood Award.
Right Livelihood Award laureates 2022
Prominent Ukrainian human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk and the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) won the award "for building sustainable democratic institutions in Ukraine and modelling a path to international accountability for war crimes." As Chairwoman of the CCL, Matviichuk and the organisation are considered to have been instrumental in strengthening Ukrainian civil society and national institutions for over a decade. They have documented war crimes and human rights violations since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and seek to hold the perpetrators to account.
From Somalia - mother and daughter duo Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman were honored "for promoting peace, demilitarisation and human rights in Somalia in the face of terrorism and gender-based violence." The pair are also human rights defenders and lead community-based peacebuilding initiatives while offering support to marginalized communities.
Operating through their oranization Elman-Peace, the mother and daughter support survivors of gender-based violence, disarm and rehabilitate child soldiers and help develop leadership skills among womean and youth.
The Africa Institute for Energy Governance in Uganda (AFIEGO) won for its opposition to projects that seek to exploit Uganda's oil reserves. "When the government knows that there are people around the world who appreciate our work, they think twice about attacking us or our communities," said Dickens Kamugisha, the CEO of AFIEGO.
The Cecosesola organization in Venezuela was honored "for establishing an equitable economic model as an alternative to profit-driven economies." Cecosesola is a network of community organisations from low-income areas that produces and provides affordable goods and services to more than 100,000 families across seven Venezuelan states. The organization is almost entirely self-financed and its various services are offered well below retail prices.
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[@ricklotter]

Amazing the work she does. I can't imagine at what impact to her personalize/psyche and life.

[@iura_ch]

This woman must have confronted so much horror, most of us can't possibly comprehend :(

[@joexavier4070]

She missed us atrocities

[@innocentiuslacrim2290]

Most of us cannot comprehend and Russians routinely and systematically commit.

[@suportbghelp4938]

She is payed well, dont care.

[@thePronto]

@@joexavier4070 you just redefined 'whataboutism' and earned 70 rubles at the same time !

[@thePronto]

@@suportbghelp4938 whereas you only got 70 rubles for this priceless addition to the human condition. Life isn't fair!

[@Djaybird]

what a hero, people like her are whats holding this world together. Thank you Oleksandra.

[@sophia5808]

she is amazing, thank you for talking about her

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

Right Livelihood is one of the eight spokes of the Wheel of Dharma.

[@freontolstoy4993]

nice comment. for those interested, it's also called the dharmachakra

[@KoteiHvostinin]

Denisova's tales are done, we're opening a new compilation.

[@GaneshDevdas]

Indeed, tales of dead Razzian orcs in body bags...😈 And rise of Razzian blatant fascism😁🤣🤪

[@greyfells2829]

Freedom for all eastern European people from the ghosts of our past. I hope my grandchildren can grow up in a world where our suffering is just a sad old tale.

[@Exxperiment626]

I thought you guys called yourself 'Central-Europe' now a day? 😂

[@edwardsianski725]

May the Miraculous Virgin of Vladimir intercede with the Almighty for the removal of Putin, Lavrov, Shoigu and their minions from power and help Ukraine to fight for a just peace. May Putin's evil regime come to a speedy end. May Saints Michael, Raphael and Gabriel help with this.

[@suportbghelp4938]

Dont call God name, when u know nothing about God work in our world.Go knee to u pope.

[@kdoney5519]

Real reporter Canadian Eva Bartlett on referendum deserves a medal

[@dersozialewestfale5114]

She will get one from Putin for her good work for him. Also a package of aluminium foil for a new hat. 😁👍

[@Thereminator101]

You can see her pain...😑

[@nikitaromeo8837]

Glory to Ukraine!! ✌

[@Heloi796]

W Putin!😘

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: If deploying Weapons,Troops At USA doorstep (Cuba) - Not Allowed At Russias doorstep (Ukraine) - Allowed Democracy,Imperialism?

[@peterslegers6121]

That's a terrible job, but needed to honour the dead and to have at least a chance to hold the perpetrators accountable. I wish Russian leadership would honour life, instead of deliberately using people as cannon fodder. Both Russians and especially Ukrainians deserve better.

[@thePronto]

I can't imagine what it must be like to do that job. This unspeakable episode qualifies for the term 'holocaust' and should be prosecuted relentlessly. Interestingly, the one of the principals of the Rwandan holocaust was brought to trial this week, over 20 years after the fact. Buckle up, Russia...

[@janko6608]

Now it is the time to send more and heavier military support to Ukraine to keep the pressure on. Putin will never end this war unless people of Russian force him to do it. That will not happen without Ukraine success in battlefields. To arms against tyranny !

[@soulonsoul8035]

Wow

[@jhackramos4621]

Just documenting.......

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: To support & aid an Apartheid State Righteous,Evil?

[@michaelterry1000]

What in the world is the logic behind mass murdering civilians ? You give your enemy no other choice other than to fight to the death. You make your own job that much harder.

[@erwinvandevelde4651]

The cheerfulness of the interviewer is nauseating.

[@iura_ch]

Poor guy must have carried that over from covering the previous topic on the broadcast. Almost looks like a nasty joke by the program schedulers.

[@slawekwojtowicz]

Remember Karyn massacre?

[@targe4070]

A reminder that the last Ukranian human rights got fired for making up about Russian soldier raping 20,000 civilian 🤣🤣🤣

[@urbansenicar81]

Bit unfortunate timing, isn't it?

[@spicynoodles2742]

Why?

[@Tutkanator]

What is going on with these comments?

[@hime273]

Too much truth for you?

[@iura_ch]

Russian bot commenter farms are going on.

[@thePronto]

@@iura_ch such a surprise, right? If you have no defense, just try to drown out the accusations. If you can't do that, commit another atrocity and people will forget about this one. That's what the playbook says, anyway.

[@Tutkanator]

@@hime273 I watch videos on this channel daily and suddenly read many comments right after the video's posting with staunch pro-russian sentiment. Probably less so truth and moreso russian bots. Thanks for your reply.

[@spicynoodles2742]

Trolls, just ignore them.

[@mezahmezah2300]

Did you hear about the child killed by Israeli soldiers

[@ougmass]

This question is for the Human Rights lawyer: Have you investigated/ documented crimes/ human rights violations in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan etc...? if so, would you please give references to your reports or documentation? Thanks

[@germancomment2244]

You can whatsbout as much as you want.. There are crimes in every war, but no army is so over-brutalized and full of cynicism as the Russian army Oh, I mean of normal army.... Sure, some lawless warlord army will be similar

[@spicynoodles2742]

From what she says their organization seems to be worldwide, so it is possible, you acn always look it on their page, but anyway, what is the comparison? There are literally videos covering those wars as well, why are you asking about Sudan, if from the title they are already mentioning this is about Ukraine, I get your point, but right now there is no point on comparing, any war is horrible. And if you care so much you are always free to donate and help shed light on those countries.

[@ougmass]

@@spicynoodles2742 Thank you for taking the time to reflect on my comment. I agree with you that all wars are horrible. The war in Ukraine is horrible, and the only way to stop this horror is to stop the war. All past wars have started and also stopped, but after causing horrors and suffering for people and global tension and economic desaster for people. In fact, all wars have such ramifications. Europe has united after they have learned peace from suffering Millions of casualties and horrors of WW1 and WW2. So the past wars' lessons are a reservoir of knowledge that can contribute to the efforts of stopping the horrors in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, past experience in any field of knowledge is crucial fore moving forward. This bring me to your statement about comparing the War in Ukraine with the previous wars such countries as Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen etc... First, when I asked the International Human Rights Lawyer about their investigation of such previous wars, I was not comparing those wars to the war in Ukraine. I was simply asking for information as to the Lawyer's experiences in investigating previous wars'horrors, because such experience will contribute positively to the performance of the Lawyer's investigative work. The horrors in Ukraine deserve the contribution of any additional and relevant war investigation expriences from Viet Nam to Ukraine, because the latter war as its predecessors is horrible in every sense for Ukrainians and for the World. Many eminent experts in the US and Europe are highliting the risk of the Nuclear war which of course nobody can survive. Given this universality of the war horros, the wars become one war and one horror for the humanity. This bring me to the International Human Rights investigations by the Lawyer, as you know, human rights are also universal and an oppression of human rights in any part of the World is, or at least it should be a concern for the World and most importantly an experiece that can contribute to a way of investigating, prosecuting, litigating and sanctioning violations of human rights in Ukraine or in any other part of the World. As to the internet page of the Human rights Lawyer or organization I will follow your suggestion and look it up.but if you have it and you want to share it with me, i will appreciate. Thanks

[@appletree6741]

Nuremberg trials for Russia

[@pierrefraisse8610]

A word perhaps on the 40 demonstrators burned alive in Odessa by his friends?. Just one for the deaf and blind germans.

[@wokeaf1337]

Has been covered 8 years ago already...no revolution without bloodshed something the russian did not learn yet

[@Frank-dv3st]

very believable

[@globalnomad4074]

RUSSIA - PUITN - SO WRONG ,,, THERE ARE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

[@andreaaltan3982]

Her actions and speeches show that she is not a "pacifist" at all, but rather an activist-propagandist.

[@ProjectKyo001]

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦 🇧🇪 🇰🇷

[@nelsonumana9547]

How about all those Russians that jumped from hospital windows😂😂

[@Aravind-sh8uq]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@danielxu9]

This is gonna be a cold winter. 🤣

[@CC-my2ex]

VIVA President Zelenskyy he is a HERO!! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦. Glory to the BRAVE HEROES 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦. Ukraine will win this war!!!

[@alexliao8622]

U will not find find her comment in USA or nato war.

[@lettucesalad3560]

Stay focused

[@crushnevnikita8575]

she knows how to earn money from the west...

[@thePronto]

70 more rubles. Keep going, you'll soon have enough to buy a plane ticket to Istanbul (aka 'New Moscow').

[@goldencoast8896]

facts. facts. facts.

[@abditahirgas4813]

And what about Israel and Palestine

[@thePronto]

What about Genghis Khan? What about Vlad the Impaler?

[@dersozialewestfale5114]

Whataboutism strong in this one is.

[@MrCrow123]

Also please document Israel's war crimes if you have guts.

[@yasinseker3258]

Rusyayı kışkırtmasaydınız bunlar gelmezdi başınıza

[@dersozialewestfale5114]

🤡

[@lassel1344]

Could be interesting and compare with how many war crimes there were in the Iraq war and also how many Ukraine committed from 2014 until today. Up to 15,000 dead in Donbas, most of them civilians.

[@c0ya1]

Whatabout whatabout whatabout. Enough of your whataboutism.

[@sakarijukarainen2321]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@abditahirgas4813]

What about Iraq Syria Afghanistan and Libya atrocities done by US and it's Allies

[@karlvonbahnhof6594]

How many hospitals, schools, shopping malls, residential areas were Americans destroying every month? What part of Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq is American territory? Did USA threaten to use nukes on these countries?

[@suportbghelp4938]

White lives matter! :)

[@ferdinandfreeman1130]

Good luck with those, how many did you documented in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and the rest etc??? 😅

[@blowbert9126]

Ah yes the good old "whatabout" argument, the favourite of smoothbrain crybabies with low intelligence.

[@carlabroderick5508]

War crimes in those conflicts have not only been documented but also prosecuted and punished. Perpetrators are in prison.

[@suportbghelp4938]

@@carlabroderick5508 LOL one of them is Assange. :) NATO bot? :)

[@desmonddwyer]

I hope she looked into zalensky tell everyone on TV he was going to hunt down collaborator 🤔🤔

[@tadhgcronin175]

A German TV channel lecturing on war crimes. No thanks.

[@ibrahimhassan1662]

Only the the white one's right😅 not in iraq Libya syria somalia Yemen palestine

[@duncansmith7562]

when she looks into Ukrainian war crimes then we'll consider her as an impartial investigator

[@duncansmith7562]

@Stefan so far, there is no independent court that has convicted anyone of war crimes. Some of us believe in assuming innocence before a guilty verdict. Only a total fool would think that Russian forces have a total monopoly on war crimes in this conflict. The sensible in this world assume that both parties are guilty of war crimes. However, the deluded and brainwashed parrot Western media and point the finger exclusively at Russia. Pathetic.

[@IBTU]

I guess NATO have never committed any war crimes 😂

[@fredbyoutubing]

On that scale? Without accountability or public disclosure ? Even comparing the two is laughable. Stop deflecting

[@uchicha666]

@@fredbyoutubing he's a dumb bot, don't expect anything reasonable

[@wokeaf1337]

U mean like mass graves in which handcuffed people with cut off fingers, ears were piled up ? Yes never happened, ever.

[@pwn5047]

@@fredbyoutubing reports are written to you by Zelensky who needs money and weapons. Without money and weapons, his power will collapse. What kind of "truth" do you think you will hear from such girls from the report?

[@TheGuidedGenius]

So your admitting Russia is committing a war crime right now…good to know!

[@pwn5047]

Again empty talk without facts ..

[@suportbghelp4938]

Who need facts, when own MSM.

[@sd1262]

*As a democratic Europe we should respect the referendum! Four Regions of Ukraine have asked Russia to invite them into Russian Federation! We see a pure democracy! All the referendum's procedure was legal international observers say! These 4 regions have their right to vote for Russia! Let's respect their choice! What a Nation! What a People! Huge Respect to Russia! Now we see Russia will win in Ukraine on 100%!*

[@steveanquetil501]

Another Russian troll full of BS.

[@hime273]

@@steveanquetil501 🤡

[@ilbr041189]

Glory to Russia 🇷🇺… the world is watching..

[@anickname202]

ruzzia is no more, nobody takes you seriously anymore and you have only yourselves to blame 👎🇷🇺

[@anickname202]

Slava Ukraini! 💪🇺🇦 Heroyam slava! 💪🇺🇦 Smert voroham!☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@akaalkripal5724]

She'll make an excellent Hollywood script writer

[@MrWhitmen1981]

You Indian bots are too good sadly.

[@thePronto]

@@MrWhitmen1981 the author is based in St Petersburg and so is unlikely to be Indian.

[@Heloi796]

Vai a lavorare, W Putin !