2007 •
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari of
Israel •
Jennifer Louise Williams of
Zimbabwe •
Siti Musdah Mulia of
Indonesia •
Virisila Buadromo of
Fiji •
Ambiga Sreenevasan of
Malaysia •
Shafiqa Quraishi of
Afghanistan 2011 •
Maria Bashir of
Afghanistan •
Henriette Ekwe Ebongo of
Cameroon •
Zin Mar Aung of
Burma 2013 •
Malalai Bahaduri of
Afghanistan •
Tsering Woeser of
China •
Roshika Deo of
Fiji •
Nadia Sharmeen of
Bangladesh •
Debra Baptist-Estrada of
Belize •
Ni Yulan of
China •
Latifa Ibn Ziaten of
France •
Nagham Nawzat of
Iraq •
Nisha Ayub of
Malaysia •
Fatimata M’baye of
Mauritania •
Zhanna Nemtsova of
Russia •
Awadeya Mahmoud of
Sudan •
Vicky Ntetema of
Tanzania •
Nihal Naj Ali Al-Awlaqi of
Yemen 2017 2017 awards were awarded to: •
Sharmin Akter, activist on early/forced marriage,
Bangladesh •
Malebogo Molefhe, human rights activist,
Botswana •
Natalia Ponce de Leon, president of the Natalia Ponce de Leon Foundation,
Colombia •
Rebecca Kabugho, political and social activist,
Democratic Republic of Congo •
Jannat Al Ghezi, deputy director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in
Iraq • Major
Aichatou Ousmane Issaka, deputy director of social work at the Military Hospital of Niamey,
Niger •
Veronica Simogun, founder and director of the Family for Change Association,
Papua New Guinea •
Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista, lawyer and icon of
Not One Woman Less,
Peru •
Sandya Eknelygoda, human rights activist,
Sri Lanka •
Sister Carolin Tahhan Fachakh, nun and member of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (F.M.A.),
Syria •
Saadet Ozkan, educator and gender activist,
Turkey •
Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh (Mother Mushroom), blogger and environmental activist,
Vietnam •
Fadia Najeeb Thabet, human rights activist,
Yemen 2018 2.
Sirikan Charoensiri 3.
Godelive Mukasarasi, 4.
Aliyah Khalaf Saleh, 5.
Feride Rushiti, 6.
L’Malouma Said, 7.
Aiman Umarova, 8
Roya Sadat, 9.
Maria Elena Berini2018 awards were awarded to: •
Roya Sadat of Afghanistan •
Aura Elena Farfan of Guatemala • Dr.
Julissa Villanueva of Honduras •
Aliyah Khalaf Saleh of Iraq • Sister
Maria Elena Berini of Italy (nominated by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See) •
Aiman Umarova of Kazakhstan • Dr.
Feride Rushiti of Kosovo •
L’Malouma Said of Mauritania •
Godeliève Mukasarasi of Rwanda •
Sirikan Charoensiri of Thailand
2019 ; 2019 awards were awarded to: •
Marini De Livera of
Sri Lanka •
Razia Sultana (Bangladesh) •
Naw K’nyaw Paw (Myanmar) •
Moumina Houssein Darar (Djibouti) •
Maggie Gobran (Egypt) •
Khalida Khalaf Hanna al-Twal (Jordan) •
Orla Treacy (Republic of Ireland) •
Olivera Lakić (Montenegro) •
Flor de María Vega Zapata (Peru) •
Anna Aloys Henga (Tanzania) Note: According to
Foreign Policy magazine, an intended award for
Jessikka Aro (Finland), announced in January 2019, was withdrawn shortly before the ceremony in March 2019.
2020 2020 awards were awarded to: •
Zarifa Ghafari (Afghanistan) •
Lucy Kocharyan (Armenia) •
Shahla Humbatova (Azerbaijan) •
Ximena Galarza (Bolivia) •
Claire Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) •
Sayragul Sauytbay (China) •
Susanna Liew (Malaysia) •
Amaya Coppens (Nicaragua) •
Jalila Haider (Pakistan) •
Amina Khoulani (Syria) •
Yasmin al Qadhi (Yemen) •
Rita Nyampinga (Zimbabwe)
2021 2021 awards were awarded to: •
Maria Kalesnikava (Belarus) •
Phyoe Phyoe Aung (Burma) (sic) •
Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe (Cameroon) •
Wang Yu (China) •
Mayerlis Angarita (Colombia) •
Julienne Lusenge (DRC) •
Erika Aifan (Guatemala) •
Shohreh Bayat (Iran) •
Muskan Khatun (Nepal) •
Zahra Mohamed Ahmad (Somalia) •
Alicia Vacas Moro (Spain) •
Ranitha Gnanarajah (Sri Lanka) •
Canan Gullu (Turkey) •
Ana Rosario Contreras (Venezuela)
2022 2022 awards were awarded to: •
Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh) •
Simone Sibilio do Nascimento (Brazil) •
Ei Thinzar Maung (Burma) •
Josefina Klinger Zúñiga (Colombia) •
Taif Sami Mohammed (Iraq) •
Facia Boyenoh Harris (Liberia) •
Najla Mangoush (Libya) •
Doina Gherman (Moldova) •
Bhumika Shrestha (Nepal) •
Carmen Gheorghe (Romania) •
Roegchanda Pascoe (South Africa) •
Phạm Đoan Trang (Vietnam)
2023 The 2023 awards were given to: •
Zakira Hekmat (Afghanistan) •
Alba Rueda (Argentina) •
Danièle Darlan (Central African Republic) •
Doris Ríos (Costa Rica) •
Meaza Mohammed (Ethiopia) •
Hadeel Abdel Aziz (Jordan) •
Bakhytzhan Toregozhina (Kazakhstan) •
Ras Adiba Radzi (Malaysia) •
Bolor Ganbold (Mongolia) •
Bianka Zalewska (Poland) •
Yuliia Paievska (Ukraine)
Additional Honorary Group •
Hadeel Abdel Aziz • Professor
Danièle Darlan • Brigadier General
Bolor Ganbold • Dr.
Zakira Hekmat •
Meaza Mohammed •
Yuliia Paievska • Senator Datuk
Ras Adiba Radzi •
Doris Ríos •
Alba Rueda •
Bakhytzhan Toregozhina •
Bianka Zalewska An additional Honorary Group Award was given to the "women and girl protestors of Iran" in response to the
death of Mahsa Amini and the ongoing
protests against the government.
2024 The 2024 awards were given to: •
Benafsha Yaqoobi (Afghanistan) •
Fawzia Karim Firoze (Bangladesh) •
Volha Harbunova (Belarus) •
Ajna Jusić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) •
Myintzu Win (Burma) •
Marta Beatriz Roque (Cuba) •
Fátima Corozo (Ecuador) •
Fatou Baldeh (The Gambia) •
Fariba Balouch (Iran) •
Rina Gonoi (Japan) •
Rabha El Haymar (Morocco) •
Agather Atuhaire (Uganda)
2025 The 2025 awards were given to: •
Henriette Da (Burkina Faso) •
Amit Soussana (Israel) • Major
Velena Iga (Papua New Guinea) •
Angelique Songco (Philippines) •
Georgiana Pascu (Romania) •
Zabib Musa Loro Bakhit (South Sudan) •
Namini Wijedasa (Sri Lanka) •
Amat Al-Salam Al-Hajj (Yemen) An additional Honorary Group Award was given to the "Women Student Protest Leaders of Bangladesh" in response to the
July Revolution in Bangladesh against the former government. ==See also==