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The 2026 Right Livelihood Awards go to women and their organisations confronting: authoritarian rule, patriarchal violence, and unchecked AI development.

October 8, 2026
2026 Right Livelihood Laureate Jalila Haider in garden at university campus

Pakistan

Jalila Haider

“For breaking barriers, as the first female lawyer from her Hazara community, to challenge ethnic, state and patriarchal persecution, guided by the conviction that no human being is illegal.”

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Southern Africa

Rural Women’s Assembly

“For organising rural women across Southern Africa into a united force defending land, seed and bodily autonomy against corporate and patriarchal dispossession.”

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GYLA submitting the application against the “Russian law” to the European Court of Human Rights.

Georgia

Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association

“For building and safeguarding Georgian democracy and sustaining civic power in the face of an autocratic crackdown.”

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USA

Timnit Gebru

“For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.”

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2026 Right Livelihood Laureate Timnit Gebru in garden, looking off to the side.

Press releases

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https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/livelihood-award-honors-women-taking-autocrats-discrimination-unchecked-136878052

https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2026/09/30/right-livelihood-award-honors-women-taking-on-autocrats-discrimination-and-unchecked-ai