Anne Klein Women's Award 2025 to Darya Afanasyeva, Irina Alkhovka and Julia Mickiewicz from Belarus

Celebrate the fourteenth Anne Klein Women's Award and our award winners with us.

The 2025 Anne Klein Women’s Award goes to the Belarusian feminists and women’s rights activists Darya Afanasieva, Irina Alkhovka and Julia Mickiewicz. All three, the women’s and human rights activist Irina Alkhovka, the feminist blogger Darya Afanasieva and the feminist activist and politician Julia Mickiewicz, are victims of officially sanctioned persecution and repression, which has forced them into exile in Europe from where they are continuing their gender democratic activism.

In January 2025, the Belarusian regime will again orchestrate a presidential election. With its decision, the jury of the Anne Klein Women’s Award wants to send a signal,  show its solidarity with the persecuted freedom fighters from Belarus and emphasise how greatly it respects the three women’s persistent activism.

The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Anne Klein Women’s Award honours women who  champion human rights, equal rights and sexual self-determination with courage and perseverance. It carries a 10,000 Euro prize. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Berlin on the evening of 7 March 2025. The jury’s statement, as well as brief biographies and photos of the awardees are available here.

The laudatory speech to be held by Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (Alliance 90/The Greens). The jury's decision is explained by Dr Imme Scholz, jury chair and board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Live-Musik: KRIWI

Reception and Dancing 

Language: German, English, Belorusian/Russian with simultaneous interpretation.

Contakt:
Ulrike Cichon
T 030-285 34-112  
E cichon@boell.de

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at the the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Conference Center, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin

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