cooperation with many of our laureates and we hope there will be other opportunitities to meet guo jianmei. amy: one of those will be appearing tonight, not in person but by skype, is edward snowden, who is in political exile right now in moscow, russia. i will be interviewing him from the stage. others have gone on to win the nobel peace prize like the great environmentalist. >> indeed. we see this award is in a norma's support for the -- enormous support for the laureates. the award takes different shapes. there some like greta thunberg who o have worldwide recognition already. intos, they are catapulted a world stage. and for all of them throughout stockholm and through our office in geneva where we have with the united n nations, wewe continue. amy: we just interviewed haidar, opposed to moroccan occupation of western sahara is one of those who will be awarded tonight. and the other, davi kopenawa. >> indeed. both of them are here. the is an example where conflict has been neglected for far too long and the neglect of gotchas just the international community, but the press, communicate

year's four laureates -- swedish climate activist greta thunberg, chinese women's rights lawyer guo jianmei, brazilian indigenous leader davi kopenawa & the yanomami hutukara association, and sahrawi human rights leader aminatou haidar who has challenged the moroccan occupation of wewestern sahara r decades. the right livelihood a award is known as the alternative nobel prize. over t the past four dececades's been given to grassroots leaders and activists around the globe, among them the world famous nsa whistleblower edward snowden, who won the award in 2014. he won the award five years ago. in 2013, edward snowden shared a trove of secret documents about how the united states revealed the government was pursuing the means s to collect evevery singe message,l him m a text and email. in an unprecedented system of global mass surveillance. after sharing the documents with reporters, snowden was charged in the u.s. for violating the espionage act and o other laws. as he fled hong kong, attempting to get political e exile in latn america, snowden became stranded in transit in a moscow russia a

chinese women's rights lawyer guo jianmei, and indigenous leader davi kopenawa and the yanomami hutukarassociation -- which protect the amazon's biodiversity and indigenous people. former award recipients from around the world have gathered here to honor these incredible activists, including yetnebersh nigussie, a lawyer and disability rights activist from ethiopia. director for advocacy and rights at "light for the world," and is the former chair of the ethiopian association of blind women's wing. she has been blind since the age of five. in 2017, she was awarded the right livelihood award. she is joining us here in our studio in stockholm. usnk you so much for joining . it is an honor to have you with us. talk about your activism. what got you started? >> thank you, amy, it is so amazing to be light on the set of democracy now! as you mentioned, i got blind when i was five. ethiopias born in where the fate of the child is to get married early. i was no more considered valuable in the community because i was not fit for marriage. my mom and grandma major i got an education. i got a spec