wow04 - Awards http://www.womenonwaves.org/set-113-ar.html ar Copyright 2009 wow04 2009-11-21T11:47:49+01:00 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:47:49 +0100 http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html 60 Mediamatic anyMeta RSS Generator 3.4.2 55cb69ea-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 527e0b08-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 MS Women of the Year http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-91-ar.html

Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves received the "Women of the year 2001" award from MS. Magazine in the US for Hatching a heroic and ingenious plan to provide reproductive health services around the world.

She received the award together with:

  • Barbara Lee
  • Jane Fonda
  • Venus and Serena Williams
  • Naomi Klein
  • Marleine Bastien
  • Michelle Yeoh
  • Sylvia Rhone
  • Magda Escobar
  • Roberta Riley and Jennifer Erickson
  • Yoko Ono
  • Afghan Women
  • September 11 heroes Kathy Mazza, Yamel Merino and Moira Smith.
]]> http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-91-ar.html Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:13:35 +0100 2004-07-28T17:19:56+02:00 527e0b08-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 6c135af0-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 Award http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-226-ar.html On Thursday, May 26, 2005 Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves, will receive the Rosie Jimenez Award from the Women's Medical Fund.
The event will take place in the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, USA.
For more information please call: +1-215-7720602

]]> http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-226-ar.html Thu, 19 May 2005 11:05:43 +0200 2005-05-19T11:01:36+02:00 6c135af0-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 619974e2-ed8b-102a-90c0-0050da447162 Rebecca Gomperts awarded http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-178-ar.html 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 making History award”, Planned Parenthood New York, April 2002

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