February 2020 will be written into the modern political history of Slovakia as a month with a great turning point which combined in a special way two dramatic themes in the internal political development of the country.

On 6 March 2020, the women and human rights activist Prasanna Gettu was awarded the Anne Klein Women's Prize. Elke Büdenbender gave the laudatory speech.

Each year, the Anne Klein Women’s Award celebrates Anne Klein and her many political, legal and social achievements in the fight for the rights of women, lesbians and gays, and for the right to live a self-determined life in liberty. This year, the Anne Klein Women‛s Award goes to Dr. Prasanna Gettu from India.

Speech of Dr. Prasanna Gettu, Anne-Klein-Women’s-Prize-Awardee 2020

A virus riding on another virus. That is how the ‘infodemic’ is raging in online spaces around the outbreak of the novel coronavirus called COVID-19, which has been on just about everyone’s radar since late January 2020. As grave as the quest to manage the respiratory disease and cure those ill with it is not only the challenge of using facts versus fear - but how to create and keep avenues of information that withstand the unrelenting drip of skewed, confused, partially true to totally false information, to racist and prejudiced views, or a cocktail of these.

The recent escalation of violence in Idlib is also a result of the increasing tensions between Turkey and Russia. The victims are those in Idlib, caught up in a hopeless situation amid a huge spectrum of differing interests.