Honduran Activist Ana Ruth Garcia Honored with Per Anger Prize

The women's rights defender and pastor Ana Ruth Garcia from Honduras receives this year's Per Anger Prize for her struggle for women's rights.

» Published: April 08 2025

Honduran Activist Ana Ruth Garcia Honored with Per Anger Prize
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She has worked for thirty years to strengthen women's and girls' rights through religion and activism. Garcia has, among other things, worked for the right to contraceptives and the possibility of having an abortion, which is prohibited in Honduras.

"Based on my Christian faith, it is self-evident that it is the woman herself who has the right to decide over her body during a pregnancy. The right to decide for oneself is sacred, just, and necessary!", she says in a press release.

Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women to live in. Last year, 365 women were murdered, on average one woman per day.

The Per Anger Prize, the Swedish government's international prize for human rights and democracy, will be awarded on May 15.

The Swedish government's international prize for human rights and democracy, named after the diplomat Per Anger, who during World War II saved Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.

The prize has been awarded since 2004 through the Forum for Living History.

Among the prize winners in recent years are the Mexican women's rights activist Malú García Andrade, the Afghan TV journalist Najwa Alimi (2019), and the Syrian human rights activist Abdullah al-Katheeb (2016).

Source: Forum for Living History

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