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The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education is an award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the advancement of female education. Supported by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Prize is conferred annually to two laureates. The prize awards USD 50,000 to each laureate to further their work in the area of ...
The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development; UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights; UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy; UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize; UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize; UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize; UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal; UNESCO Prize for Girls' and ...
Gruber Prize for Women's Rights: Gruber Foundation: 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 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Pioneering contribution of an individual in empowering women and raising women's issues. [3] [4] International UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the Creative Economy: UNESCO: An award from UNESCO that rewards exceptional initiatives that support young entrepreneurs in the field of the creative economy ...
Ghanaian women who have shown leadership, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to sacrifice for others, especially in promoting women's rights in Ghana United States: Glamour Awards: Glamour (magazine) Extraordinary and inspirational women from a variety of fields United States: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
10. Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1921. While Columbia University has awarded Pulitzer Prizes for more than 100 years, only 31 of them have been given to women ...
A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images
The winners of the 2010 UNESCO-L'Oréal Prize for Women in Science Awards Ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris – From left to right; Elaine Fuchs (United States of America), Anne Dejean-Assémat (France), Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman of L'Oréal, Alejandra Bravo (Mexico), Lourdes J. Cruz (Philippines), Rashika El Ridi (Egypt), Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Günter ...