Gruber Prize for Women's Rights
The Gruber Women's Rights Prize was an award in the field of women's rights given between 2003 and 2011 by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation , based on Saint Thomas . It was intended to recognize important human rights contributions that would have improved the legal situation of women and girls in any part of the world.
Like the other Gruber Awards , the award was endowed with 500,000 US dollars , which the winner could freely use. The award winners also received a gold medal engraved with their name and the work being recognized. The last award took place in 2011, then the award - like that of the Gruber Justice Prize - was discontinued. Instead, the foundation is involved in the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights at Yale Law School .
Award winners
- 2011 AVEGA (Agahozo)
- 2010 CLADEM , Center for Reproductive Rights
- 2009 Women's Legal Center , Leymah Gbowee
- 2008 Sapana Pradhan Malla , Yanar Mohammed , Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
- 2007 Pinar Ilkkaracan , Women for Women's Human Rights , Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights
- 2006 Luz Méndez for UNAMG (Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas), Cecilia Medina Quiroga , Julie Su for Sweatshop Watch
- 2005 The Women's League of Burma , Shan Women's Action Network
- 2004 Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), Sakena Yacoobi
- 2003 Pro-Femmes Twese Hamwe , Navanethem Pillay