Rebecca Gomperts, a medical doctor and founder of the abortion rights organization Women on Waves, received numerous awards for her work
Rebecca Gomperts (born 1966) studied medicine and visual arts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating Gomperts became an abortion doctor and sailed with the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, as its doctor and as an environmental activist. While sailing in South America she encountered many women who suffered greatly due to lack of access to reproductive heath services and safe, legal abortions. These women and their stories inspired Rebecca Gomperts to start Women on Waves.
Rebecca Gomperts has also written a novel Zeedrift and published articles and essays.
Awards
- Women Deliver 100: the most inspiring people delivering for girls and women.” 2011 (www.womendeliver.org/knowledge-center/publications/women-deliver-100/women-deliver-100-26-50/#rebecca)
- Global Women’s Rights Awards, Feminist Majority Foundation 2007, Los Angeles, USA (www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=10320)
- 1000 Peace-women for the Nobel Price, 2005 (www.1000peacewomen.org/typo/index.php?id=14&WomenID=653)
- “Margeret Sanger Woman of Valor Award” Planned Parenthood New York City, April 2004
- “Clara Wichmann penning” Liga van de rechten van de Mens (Dutch Human Rights Organisation December 2002, Netherlands (www.ligarechtenvandemens.nl/cmwp_2002_000.html)
- “Women making History award”, Planned Parenthood New York, April 2002
- “Women of the Year 2001”, MS magazine in New York US (www.msmagazine.com/dec01/woty.asp)
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