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Global women’s rights organisation Equality Now has received the International Gender Equality Prize from Finland.

Greetings from Niger to Finland

The first International Gender Equality Prize, awarded in 2017, was granted towards building a shelter for victims of gender-based violence in Niamey, Niger. What was the impact of the prize money for the organisation building the House of Hope?

The winner of the International Gender Equality Prize will be announced in December

The International Gender Equality Prize (IGEP) will be awarded by the Government of Finland on 2 December. The 2019 prize ceremony will draw attention to issues that must be tackled in order to eliminate inequality.

Finland wants to encourage equality and give the world a word – their all-inclusive personal pronoun, hän

Like many languages, Finnish is full of loanwords – words that were, at some point, borrowed from other languages and incorporated into Finnish. Finland would now like to give the rest of the world a word, to encourage international discussion about equality and inclusivity, and to support everyone who is working to promote them. The word is: hän.

Federal Chancellor Merkel who gave the prize money to SOS FEVVF visited Niamey

The first recipient of the Government of Finland’s International Gender Equality Prize, Chancellor Angela Merkel, directed the sum of EUR 150,000 included in the prize to SOS FEVVF, a Nigerien organisation that defends the rights of women and girls.

Photo: Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung

Thank you to everyone who nominated a candidate for the prize

The call for proposals for the next recipient of the International Gender Equality Prize closed at the end of the year. Over three hundred nominations from all over the world were received for the prize to be awarded in autumn 2019. The prize is awarded to a person or organisation that has advanced gender equality in a globally significant way.

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