Anne Klein Women’s Award

The Anne Klein Women's Prize 2025 goes to three Belarusian feminists. The women's and human rights defender Irina Alkhovka, the feminist blogger Darya Afanasyeva and the feminist activist and politician Julia Mickiewicz - they are all targets of state persecution and repression and are currently forced to continue their work from exile in Europe.

The Ukrainian feminist and women’s rights activist Yuliya Sporysh is to receive the Anne Klein Women’s Award 2024. Yuliya Sporysh founded the non-governmental organisation "Girls" in Kyiv in 2019.

The Anne Klein Women's Award 2023 goes to the Syrian lawyer and women's and human rights activist Joumana Seif, who has spent the past decade in forced exile in Berlin.

With the Anne Klein Women’s Award, the Heinrich Böll Foundation honors women who courageously and persistently stand up for human rights, equal rights and sexual self-determination. Here, the award winners have their say: great, fearless, inspiring voices.