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 an office in New York City. The annual 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 www.gruberprizes.org.

Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at [[1]]

[edit] Winners

2007

Pinar Ilkkaracan 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)