"Friday for the long run": Greta Thunberg receives the Amnesty award



Within the firm of Mandela, Havel and Malala Yousafzai: Greta Thunberg is honored by Amnesty Worldwide as "Ambassador of conscience". The sixteen yr outdated reveals that "we're extra highly effective than we expect," says Amnesty.


The local weather activist Greta Thunberg and the "Friday for the long run" motion will obtain a very powerful award of this yr from Amnesty Worldwide. The best way during which sure younger activists all over the world have indicated the local weather disaster has been stimulating, the group for human rights has affirmed. "They remind us that we're extra highly effective than we consider and that all of us have a job to play in defending human rights towards local weather disaster," mentioned normal secretary Kumi Naidoo.


Based on Amnesty, an award ceremony is just not at present scheduled, however Thunberg want to formally current the award later. The group quoted Thunberg as saying that it was a terrific honor to obtain the award as consultant of the local weather change motion.


The injustice that folks in southern nations are much less more likely to be affected by the local weather disaster, however who're extra affected by it, have to be fought. "Human rights and the local weather disaster go hand in hand, we can not resolve one with out the opposite," Thunberg emphasised.


Protest earlier than the Swedish Reichstag


From August 2018, 16-year-old Thunberg recurrently protested earlier than the Stockholm Reichstag that Sweden is doing extra for local weather safety. Their faculty strike become a world local weather protest motion with a whole lot of 1000's of supporters.


With the Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty honors people and teams dedicated to defending human rights. The prize winner in 2003 was the Czech civil rights activist Vaclav Havel, adopted, amongst others, by the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nelson Mandela, from the Pakistani rights activist. by the youngsters Malala Yousafzai and by the Chinese language artist Ai Weiwei.



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