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Their common thread is resistance to systems that push people to the margins, and a shared insistence on putting people back at the centre.

Jalila Haider is a Hazara human rights lawyer and activist protecting Pakistan’s most vulnerable communities against state repression, patriarchal norms and ethnic violence.

The Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) is a self-organised, transnational movement of over 178,000 small-scale farmers across eleven Southern African nations, united to defend land, seed and bodily autonomy against corporate agribusiness and patriarchal dispossession.

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) is Georgia’s oldest and most prominent human rights organisation, founded in 1994 by volunteer lawyers who helped draft the country’s first post-independence constitution.

Timnit Gebru is a US artificial intelligence researcher and founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, whose work challenges the concentration of power in the technology sector and exposes the harms AI systems are already causing in people’s everyday lives.