Anne Klein Women's Award

Anne Klein Women's prize
Awarded for	women of any nationality who are committed to gender democracy
Sponsored by	Heinrich Böll Foundation
Location	Germany
First awarded	2012
Website	https://www.boell.de/de/stiftung/anne-klein-frauenpreis

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]}

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.