Amid growing migration crisis: SOS Méditerranée receives 'alternative Nobel Prize' | DW News

The winners of this year's Right Livelihood Award have been announced. The award – known as the alternative Nobel Prize – honors activists and organizations making the world a better place. It's gone to two people and two organisations.

The people are Eunice Brookman-Amissah from Ghana, whose pioneering discussions on women’s reproductive rights in Africa paved the way for improved safe abortion access. And Phyllis Omido from Kenya, who fights for environmental protection.

The groups are the environmental advocacy group Mother Nature Cambodia, and SOS Mediterrannee – for its rescue missions in the Mediterranean off of the coast of Libya. The NGO says it has saved tens of thousands of migrants from drowning this year alone. We take a closer look at their work.

At the same time, Interior ministers from European Union members states are meeting in Brussels to discuss asylum and immigration. They're trying to make progress on long-stalled reform of the bloc's policy on the issue.

EU countries have so far failed to find a common position. Leaders of frontline states including Italy and Greece say they can no longer deal with the large numbers of people arriving on their shores. Destination countries like Germany say they're also struggling.

One of the countries saying they can no longer deal with the number of people arriving is Greece. The camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has become a symbol of the difficulties facing the EU's migration policy. Our correspondent Emily Sherwin met with some of the people there.

For more on this we talk to Marie Walter-Franke, Research Fellow of Migration Management at the German council on foreign relations.

And we talk to SOS Méditerranée’s executive director Caroline Abu Sa’da.

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