Right Livelihood Award Honors Women Taking on Autocrats, Discrimination and Unchecked AI
The prize recognized work against autocratic rule, discrimination and AI harms, with one group representing more than 178,000 farmers.
- On Wednesday, the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood foundation awarded its annual prize to two women and two women-led organizations, selected from 200 nominations across 72 countries.
- Created in 1980 by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, the award honors work contributing to a just world, recognizing recipients for their "resistance to systems that push people to the margins."
- Pakistani human rights lawyer Jalila Haider received the prize for breaking barriers, with her firm helping more than 600 activists regain freedom; Ethiopian-born AI researcher Timnit Gebru was honored for challenging concentrated power in technology.
- The Georgian Young Lawyers Association won for safeguarding democracy and sustaining civic power, while the Rural Women's Assembly was honored for organizing more than 178,000 small-scale farmers across 11 nations to defend land rights.
- Ole von Uexkull, the organization's executive director, said the winners are "rewriting the rules that autocrats, patriarchs and Silicon Valley's most powerful men assumed were theirs," as the announcement precedes the Nobel Prizes starting next Monday.
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This year, the so-called Alternative Nobel Prize goes to three women from Pakistan, the US and southern Africa as well as to an organization from Georgia. This was announced by the Right Livelihood Foundation, which awards the prizes, in Stockholm.
Swedish award highlighted performances by Pakistani lawyer, South African organization of rural women, Georgian group of jurists and American researcher
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