Hivos-partner Yanar Mohammed wins Women's Rights Prize
20 August 2008 -
Yanar Mohammed is one of three courageous activists to have won this year's Gruber International Women's Rights Prize for Advancing Gender Equality. She is praised for her activism for women's rights in Iraq. Yanar Mohammed is the founder and director of Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, an Hivos-partnerorganization which promotes a secular and egalitarian society that is free from violence and where human rights are enjoyed by all.
Yanar Mohammed has become the focal point for women's rights in Iraq. She is publisher of Al Mousawat, which calls for full equality for women, and has opened women's shelters and safe houses to protect women threatened by domestic abuse and what are referred to as honor killings. Her activities against trafficking of young women are an effort to save them from a lifetime of sexual slavery. She teaches women activists how to confront intolerance and regularly advocates equality for women on Iraqi radio and television.
Earlier, in May 2008, Yanar Mohammed received the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women's Rights Award in Los Angeles, United States.
For more information, see the website of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
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