In 2025, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought was awarded to Seyla Benhabib. Her work deals with the social, political, and moral conditions, that are necessary for human beings to recognize one another as equals.

The Anne Klein Women’s Award 2026 goes to women’s rights activist Awa Fall-Diop of Senegal. For many years, she has  been a proponent of a feminism that focuses on the disadvantaged and that is forging links with Africa’s younger generation of feminists.

He documented war crimes and advised the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office: Senior Public Prosecutor Klaus Hoffmann on sexual violence in armed conflicts, digital evidence, and the current challenges facing international criminal jurisprudence.

The G20 Summit and COP30 converged at a time of exceptional strain on the multilateral system. As geopolitical divides widened, coalitions of the willing nonetheless succeeded in keeping especially debt sustainability on the international agenda.

Unsustainable debt burdens and escalating climate shocks have left African economies with little fiscal space to invest in their future. Without a reform of the global financial system, the continent’s development and Europe’s stability face growing risks.

Awa Fall-Diop, born in 1956, is a feminist coach and gender expert with over 30 years of experience in and about West Africa.