Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights
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The Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights is one of the international awards made by the Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in the U. S. Virgin Islands. It was established in 2003 and the annual prize is worth $500,000.
Recipients are selected by an advisory board that included (in 2006), Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women.
[edit] Winners
- 2006
- Union Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas - organization in Guatemala
- Sweatshop Watch - organization in California
- Cecilia Medina Quiroga - Chilean judge
- 2005
- Shan Women's Action Network
- Women's League of Burma
- 2004
- Sakena Yacoobi - founder, Afghan Institute of Learning
- 2003
- Navanethem Pillay - South African judge
- Pro-Femmes Twese Hamwe - organization in Rwanda
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