Polish women win the 2017 Simone de Beauvoir Prize

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Channel: The Wire · 2017 · News & Politics

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Polish women who protested against the anti-abortion law proposed last year in October, were awarded the Simon de Beauvoir prize for Women’s Freedom. Their courage to fight against the law was supported through-out Europe. Thousands of women wearing black participated and successfully pressured the Parliament to reject the proposal.

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