The Simone de Beauvoir Prize (french: Prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes) is an international
human rights prize for women's freedom, awarded since 2008 to individuals or groups fighting for
gender equality and opposing breaches of human rights. It is named after the
French
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author and
philosopher
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...
, known for her 1949
women's rights treatise ''
The Second Sex''.
The prize was founded by
Julia Kristeva
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on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth.
Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Pierre Bras are the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee.
According to the organizers:
The prize is awarded every year to a remarkable personality whose courage and thoughts are examples for everybody, in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir who wrote: "The ultimate end, for which human beings should aim, is liberty, the only capable hing to establish every end on."
Recipients
* 2008 –
Taslima Nasreen,
Bangladeshi writer, and
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch feminist, writer and politician.
* 2009 –
One Million Signatures, a campaign by the
Women's rights movement in Iran, demanding changes to discriminatory laws in
Iran.
* 2010 –
Ai Xiaoming, Chinese videographer and professor at
Sun Yat-sen University, and
Jianmei Guo, Chinese lawyer and founder of the Women's Law Studies and Legal Aid Center at the
Peking University
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Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
School of Law.
* 2011 –
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian novelist and civil rights activist
* 2012 – Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates
* 2013 –
Malala Yousafzai,
Pakistani
student
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,
blogger and
activist
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.
* 2014 –
Michelle Perrot, French historian
* 2015 –
National Museum of Women in the Arts
* 2016 – Mayor of
Lampedusa Giusi Nicolini for her involvement with the integration of immigrants on the island.
* 2017 – Polish association 'Save Women'.
Barbara Nowacka
Barbara Anna Nowacka (born 10 May 1975) is a Polish politician. A left activist in Labour United, and later in Your Movement, in October 2015 she became leader of the United Left coalition for the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, bringing tog ...
accepted the prize.
* 2018 –
Aslı Erdoğan, Turkish writer
* 2019 –
Sara García Gross
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, Salvadoran activist
References
External links
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Awards established in 2008
2008 establishments in France