Presentation of 2017 Margherita von Brentano Award

Award went equally to legal scholar Beate Rudolf and research project on refugee women. ' 184/2017 from Jul 04, 2017 This year's Margherita von Brentano Award of Freie Universität Berlin was presented on Tuesday evening. It went equally to a professor of law, Beate Rudolf, and a research project on refugee women ("Frauen und Flucht"). The award presentation speeches were held by legal studies scholar Marsha Freeman from the University of Minnesota and María do Mar Castro Varela, a professor of social work and general pedagogy at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin. The Margherita von Brentano Award includes 15,000 euros. According to the selection panel, Beate Rudolf, the director of the German Institute for Human Rights, was recognized for her long-term academic and social policy work in the field of human rights, and in particular, women's rights. The "Frauen und Flucht" project, which is led by Professor Hansjörg Dilger and Kristina Dohrn from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, was recognized for its outstanding achievements in focusing on the sociopolitical relevance of the special needs of refugee women, while at the same time being a successful example of research-oriented teaching.