Irina Grushevaya

Irina Gruschewaja ( Russian Ирина Грушевая , Belarusian Ірына Грушавая / Iryna Hruschawaja; born September 1, 1948 ) is a Belarusian civil rights activist . Together with her husband Gennady Gruschewoi she founded in 1989 the Foundation The Children of Chernobyl , the Education and Exchange International Association for Humanitarian Cooperation directs as president today.

Life

Gruschewaja was born in Simferopol (today Ukraine ) in 1948 . She studied German at the Minsk University of Education for Foreign Languages , where she received her doctorate in 1982 and worked as a lecturer. In 1989 she co-founded the citizens' committee The Children of Chernobyl , which drew attention to the consequences of the disaster in Belarus , which was hardest hit by the Chernobyl disaster, and organized convalescence and recreational trips for children to Germany and other countries in Western Europe. In 1997/98 Gruschewaja was in political exile in Germany . Today she lives and works again in Berlin. Grushevaya was married to the Belarusian philosopher and opposition politician Gennady Grushevoy .

Awards

In 2008, Gruschewaja was awarded the Shalom Prize of the University of Eichstätt for her Malinovka project, an advice center against international trafficking in women and against violence against women .

For her commitment to the Chernobyl Children Foundation, Gruschewaja received the 2011 Women in Europe Prize - Germany 2011 award from the European Movement Germany Network .

Web links

• Website Irina Grushevaya
• Federal working group "The Children of Chernobyl" e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Working Group The Children of Chernobyl. Retrieved November 2, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Rescuer not in sight . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1990 ( online ).
3. ↑ Civil rights activist Irina Gruschewaja receives “European Women Prize - Germany” 2011. Accessed on November 2, 2011 .