Simone de Beauvoir Prize

The Simone de Beauvoir Prize (French: Prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes) is an international human rights prize for women's freedom, awarded since 2008 to individuals or groups fighting for gender equality and opposing breaches of human rights. It is named after the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, known for her 1949 women's rights treatise The Second Sex.[1]

The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Pierre Bras are the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee.[2]

According to the organizers:

The prize is awarded every year to a remarkable personality whose courage and thoughts are examples for everybody, in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir who wrote: "The ultimate end, for which human beings should aim, is liberty, the only capable [thing], to establish every end on."[3]

  1. ^ "One Million Signature Campaign Honored with Simone de Beauvoir Award". Campaign for Equality. 9 January 2009. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Simone de Beauvoir Prize 2009 goes to the One Million Signatures Campaign in Iran". Change for Equality. 10 January 2009. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Création du prix " Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes "" (PDF). CulturesFrance. 14 January 2008.[permanent dead link]