Simone de Beauvoir

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. The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. S…