Award for Women's Equality Award Ceremony

Objective:

The Award for Women’ Equality  was founded by the Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary to honour the “2007 – European Year of Equal Opportunities for All”. In every year the Award will granted for three persons of excellence who have been the most intensively promoting the issue of gender equality and have provided substantial support to the realization of the objectives set by the Association of Women’s Career Development in Hungary.

 
On 28th July 2007 the following persons were awarded by the Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary in frame of a reception held in the Rubin Hotel Budapest:

April H Foley, US Ambassador

Dr. Zita Gurmai. Member of the European Parliament

Gabriella Molnár, Editor in Chief of Nők Lapja Leading Women’s Magazine in Hungary

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US Embassy

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The Prizes for outstanding contribution to the cause of Women’s Equality in 2008

were awarded to:

Vladimir Špidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities,

Edit Rauh, Under-secretary of State for Equal Opportunities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and

Douglas C. Freeman, CEO of Virtcom Consulting, US (Mr. Freeman serves at the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Gender Equality Experts Panel, in the Office of the Secretary General.)

in frame of a reception to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the

Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary (AWCDH)

held on 17th October 2008 at the Hunting Room of Hungarian Parliament.

 

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