'Alternative Nobel' honors women's rights activists, AI researcher
- A leading AI researcher, together with a woman lawyer from Pakistan and two women-led rights groups, on Wednesday received a Sweden-based rights award that honors work seen as contributing to a more just and peaceful world.
- The Right Livelihood Award was created by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull in 1980 to celebrate achievements in the fields of environment and international development disregarded by the Nobel Prizes.
- It is usually awarded a week before the Nobel Prizes.
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- A leading AI researcher, together with a woman lawyer from Pakistan and two women-led rights groups, on Wednesday received a Sweden-based rights award that honors work seen as contributing to a more just and peaceful world.
- The Right Livelihood Award was created by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull in 1980 to celebrate achievements in the fields of environment and international development disregarded by the Nobel Prizes.
- It is usually awarded a week before the Nobel Prizes.
Sources: DW