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Human rights lawyer and activist Jalila Haider on Wednesday received the Right Livelihood prize, dubbed an “alternative Nobel”. The Sweden-based Right Livelihood Foundation honoured 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.” According to the foundation’s website, Haider in 2018 “led a seven-day hunger strike against the targeted killing of Hazaras” that led to direct negotiations between the army chief and Hazara women, “resulting in a sustained decrease in attacks against the community”. It added that Haider had combined legal work with street activism and community empowerment, securing “justice for thousands targeted or ignored by those in power, specifically ethnic, gender and religious minorities, as well as refugees”. “Her law firm has also helped restore freedom of movement for more than 600 political activists and human rights defenders,” the Right Livelihood Foundation said. Haider is a founding member of the Women’s Democratic Front as well, the foundation said, adding that she “helped pioneer Balochistan’s first Women’s March, a street mobilisation that sparked discussions on feminism across the deeply patriarchal region”. Through her organisation ‘We the Humans’, Haider has “helped over 400 widows of terrorism victims gain financial independence”, the foundation said. “Despite detention, cyber-harassment and death threats, she continues to work towards a world where, in her words, ‘no human being is illegal’,” the foundation said. The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980, when Swedish-German stamp collector Jakob von Uexkull sold part of his collection to fund it, after the foundation behind the Nobel Prizes refused to create new awards in the fields of environmental protection and international development. A prominent US artificial intelligence researcher and two women-led rights groups we

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'A loss for Irish football': Ireland victory over Israel leaves sour taste Oscar Rickett on Mon, 09/28/2026 - 12:39 Ireland won 3-0 against Israel in Hungary, but many at home had campaigned for the game not to happen Israel fans wave flags after the Israel v Republic of Ireland match at Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen, Hungary, 27 September 2026 (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters) Off Ireland’s football team beat Israel 3-0 in Hungary on Sunday night in a Uefa Nations League game many believed should never have taken place. Ireland’s players wore black armbands in memory of those killed in Israel’s Gaza genocide, bowed their heads while the Israeli national anthem played, and refused to shake the hand of their Israeli counterparts.   The smattering of Israeli fans in the stands booed Ireland’s players, shouted “Fuck Ireland” and chanted “IDF, IDF!” in tribute to Israel’s army. Yoseph Haddad, a former Israeli soldier turned online influencer and Knesset candidate for the newly formed Amcha Yisrael party, filmed the chants. “Israel’s national team lost to Ireland on the field, but let the antisemites not celebrate too much – because what really matters is that the IDF will defeat the terrorists that they support!” Haddad posted. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In a video message attached to the post, Haddad said: “So yes, we lose on football, yes. But you know where we don’t lose? The IDF. We always win. So maybe the football Irish team beat us on the football field, but they will never ever break the Israeli spirit.”  Israel's captain Manor Solomon, who plays for West Ham in England, said that the Irish players had "said stupid things during the game". "Obviously they hate us and we don't like them," he said. "We have a country ten times better than theirs... We're proud to be Israelis, proud of our country, proud of our soldiers..." Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October 2023, includi

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