00:02The recipients of this year's Alternative Nobel Prize, officially known as the Right Livelihood Award, have been announced in Stockholm.
00:10The award will be presented to four winners in the Swedish capital on the 1st of December.
00:15They were selected from among 200 nominees from 72 countries.
00:19One of them is Jalila Haider, a Pakistani human rights lawyer, the first female lawyer in the Hazara community.
00:26She stood up against ethnic, state and patriarchal persecution in the belief that no one should be forced into illegality,
00:34according to the jury.
00:35The jury justified its recognition of an African organization known as the Rural Women's Assembly
00:41by noting that it had organized rural Roman in Sub-Saharan Africa into a strong united force
00:47defending land, seed and bodily autonomy against corporate and patriarchal disposition.
00:52The Association of Young Georgian Lawyers was among this year's honoraries in recognition of its work, carried out despite political
00:59repression,
01:00to build and safeguard Georgian democracy and sustaining civic power.
01:04Also among the honoraries is Timnit Gebru, an Eritrean computer scientist who has been challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence
01:12and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.
01:18The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 by Jakob van Uckskul, a German-Swedish writer and philatelist,
01:26to recognize those who offer practical solutions to the most pressing problems facing the Earth and humanity.
01:32The award comes with long-term support to enable the promotion and expansion of the laureate's work.
01:37the award comes with an increase in regard to its significance
