Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights
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The Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights is one of five, international prizes awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Women's Rights Prize was established in 2003, and is worth $500,000 (US).
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Women's Rights Prize is presented to an individual or group that has made significant contributions, often at great personal or professional risk, to furthering the rights of women and girls in any area and to advancing public awareness of the need for gender equality
to achieve a just world. Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international women's rights
experts/activists from nominations that are received from around the world.
The Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice
and scientific achievements that better the human condition
. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org
Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php
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Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is a U. S. philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.The foundation has two major activities...
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Women's Rights Prize was established in 2003, and is worth $500,000 (US).
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Women's Rights Prize is presented to an individual or group that has made significant contributions, often at great personal or professional risk, to furthering the rights of women and girls in any area and to advancing public awareness of the need for gender equality
Gender equality
Gender equality is the goal of the equality of the genders, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality.- Concept :...
to achieve a just world. Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international women's rights
Women's rights
Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...
experts/activists from nominations that are received from around the world.
The Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice
Social justice
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...
and scientific achievements that better the human condition
Human condition
The human condition encompasses the experiences of being human in a social, cultural, and personal context. It can be described as the irreducible part of humanity that is inherent and not connected to gender, race, class, etc. — a search for purpose, sense of curiosity, the inevitability of...
. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org
Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php
Recipients
2010- The Center for Reproductive RightsThe Center for Reproductive RightsThe Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's right to an abortion in over 45 countries....
and CLADEM (Comité de América Latina y El Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer)http://www.cladem.org/, two organizations extending and defending the rights of women through litigation, law reform, and education, helping to advance women's sexual and reproductive rights.
2009
- Leymah GboweeLeymah GboweeLeymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. This led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president...
, executive director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa, who was instrumental in bringing about the end to civil war in Liberia and getting women's groups represented in negotiations and demilitarization efforts. - Women's Legal Centre (WLC), a non-profit law center based in South Africa that seeks to achieve equality for women, particularly black women.
2008
- Yanar MohammedYanar MohammedYanar Mohammed is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad. She is a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, and serves as the editor of the newspaper Al-Mousawat...
, co-founder of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, has become the focal point for women’s rights activism in Iraq - Sapana Pradhan MallaSapana Pradhan MallaSapana Pradhan Malla is a Nepalese lawyer and member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly. She is president of the Forum for Women, Law & Development. In 2008, she was a joint winner of the Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights.-External links:...
, a leader in securing legal reforms protecting the fundamental reproductive and property rights of women in Nepal, is president of the Forum for Women, Law & Development - Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a leading feminist scholar, therapist and activist, has worked to end domestic violence against Palestinian women, particularly what have been referred to as honor killings; living in Israel, she has trained women activists in the West Bank and Gaza and established a hotline for reporting abuse
2007
- Pinar IlkkaracanPinar IlkkaracanPınar İlkkaracan is a researcher trained both in psychotherapy and political science and a human rights activist. She is the co-founder of two NGOs, Women for Women’s Human Rights – NEW WAYS, a women’s NGO that led various successful legal reforms in Turkey towards gender equality in Turkey and...
of Istanbul, Turkey, and two organizations she helped establish: Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways (WWHR) and the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR)
2006
- Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas: women's organization in Guatemala
- Julie SuJulie Su (attorney)Julie A. Su is the current Labor Commissioner of California and the former litigation director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California...
for Sweatshop Watch: organization in the U.S. state of California - Cecilia Medina Quiroga: Chilean judge, currently serving on the Inter-American Court of Human RightsInter-American Court of Human RightsThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights is an autonomous judicial institution based in the city of San José, Costa Rica. Together with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, it makes up the human rights protection system of the Organization of American States , which serves to uphold and...
2005
- Shan Women's Action NetworkShan Women's Action NetworkThe Shan Women’s Action Network , is a organization of Shan women active in Shan State and Thailand, working to attain gender equality and achieve justice for Shan women in the struggle for social and political change in Burma....
- Women's League of BurmaWomen's League of BurmaThe Women's League of Burma is one of the many exiled, pro-democracy political movements in the region. With headquarters in Chang Mai, Thailand, the Women's League of Burma is an umbrella organization linking various women's ethnic minority organizations into a proactive organization fighting for...
2004
- Sakena YacoobiSakena YacoobiSakena Yacoobi is the founder of the .Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning , an Afghan women-led NGO she founded in 1995. The organization was established to provide teacher training to Afghan women, to support education for boys and girls, and to provide...
: founder, Afghan Institute of Learning - the Afghan Institute of Learning
2003
- Navanethem Pillay: South African judge, currently serving on the International Criminal CourtInternational Criminal CourtThe International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
- Pro-Femmes Twese HamwePro-Femmes Twese HamwePro-Femmes Twese Hamwe is a national women's organisation in Rwanda founded in 1993 that is recognised internationally for its contributions to rebuilding society after the 1994 Rwandan genocide....
: organization in Rwanda