Anne Klein Women's Award

The Anne Klein Women's Prize is given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation to women from anywhere in the world who are committed to gender democracy. The award was named after Anne Klein the German lawyer and State Senator. The prize includes €10,000 and is decided on by a five-member jury. Candidates for the award come from: "Realizing gender democracy, eliminating discrimination based on gender and gender identity, political commitment to realizing women's, human and freedom rights, promoting women and girls in science and research . "[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Anne Klein Women's prize
Awarded forwomen of any nationality who are committed to gender democracy
Sponsored byHeinrich Böll Foundation
LocationGermany
First awarded2012
Websitehttps://www.boell.de/de/stiftung/anne-klein-frauenpreis Edit this on Wikidata

Winners
Year Winner Awarded for
2012 Nivedita Prasad lecturer and activist for women's and human rights
2013 Lepa Mladjenovic feminist activist
2014 Imelda Marrufo Nava feminist activist
2015 Nebahat Akkoç activist against state and domestic violence and for human and women's rights
2016 Gisela Burckhardt women's rights activist and founder of the FEMNET association for the rights of women workers in the global textile industry
2017 Nomarussia Bonase activist against apartheid in South Africa, women's rights activist
2018 Jineth Bedoya Lima
Mayerlis Angarita Robles		 Colombian journalists who independently campaigned for women
2019 Kristina Hänel German general medicine and emergency physician
2020 Prasanna Gettu criminologist, human rights activist and women's rights activist from Chennai, India
2021 Cânân Arın Turkish women's rights defender

References
  1. "The Anne Klein Women's Award | Heinrich Böll Stiftung". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
  2. "Indische Aktivistin Prasanna Gettu - Mutige Kämpferin für misshandelte Frauen". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).
  3. "Besima Borić's Candidacy for the Prestigious Anne Klein Women's Award". Sarajevski Otvoreni Centar. 30 September 2013.
  4. "RACI – Anne Klein Women's Award 2021" (in European Spanish).
  5. "ANNE KLEIN WOMEN'S AWARD CEREMONY: Canan Arın: World is changing, women will have the victory". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi.
  6. "EURACTIV Press Release Site". EURACTIV PR.
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