Five people share "Alternative Nobel prizes" of 2008 - World News

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Two Indians and another three people respectively from the United States, Somalia and Germany were awarded Wednesday the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, often dubbed the Alternative Nobel Prize.

They will share a 2 million kronor (about 290,000 U.S. dollars)cash prize to be split in four parts.

Two Indian activists Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan and their organization LAFTI (Land for the Tillers' Freedom) (India) have won the prize "for their work dedicated to realizing in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development," the jury of the prize said in a statement.

American journalist Amy Goodman shared the award "for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."

While Somali lawmaker Asha Hagi won the prize "for continuing to lead at great personal risk the female participation in the peace and reconciliation process in her war-ravaged country."

The fourth winner was German gynecologist Monika Hauser, who has worked tirelessly "with women who have experienced the most horrific sexualized violence in some of the most dangerous countries in the world."

The Right Livelihood Awards, founded in 1980 by Swedish-German professional philatelist Jakob von Uexkull, are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament.