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Current press releases
Current press releases
Preisträgerin 2025: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Prize winner 2019: Prof. Dr. hab. Matgorzata Gersdorf
- Press release: Bonn International Democracy Prize for Małgorzata Gersdorf
- Welcome address Dr. Ansgar Burghof, Chairman of the Board of the International Democracy Prize
- Speech by Prof. Dr. hab. Małgorzata Gersdorf, President of the Supreme Court of Poland
- Greetings from Peter Wirtz, Mayor of the City of Königswinter
- Closing remarks Friedhelm Ost, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Democracy Award
- Photos from the award ceremony on Flickr
- Bonn: International Democracy Prize for Poland's top judge (WDR)
- Democracy Prize in Bonn: Malgorzata Gersdorf defies the government in Warsaw - Fighters for free justice in Poland spent the night in tents (Blog of the Republic)
- Preliminary report: A giant who doesn't want to be one by Ulrich Krökel (Frankfurter Rundschau)
- Press release: International Democracy Award Bonn 2019 for Prof. Dr. hab. Małgorzata Gersdorf
- The glass trophy
2018 prizewinner: Leymah Roberta Gbowee
- Leymah Roberta Gbowee awarded the Bonn International Democracy Prize 2018
- Portrait Leymah Roberta Gbowee
- Opening by Dr. Ansgar Burghof Chairman of the International Democracy Award Bonn e.V.
- Closing remarks by former State Secretary Friedhelm Ost Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Internationaler Demokratiepreis Bonn e.V.
- Greeting from Mayor Reinhard Limbach
- The association Internationaler Demokratiepreis Bonn e.V
- Description of the trophy for the Bonn International Democracy Award
- Photos from the award ceremony on Flickr
- Report: Liberian activist wins Bonn International Democracy Prize (Deutsche Welle)
- Report: Civil rights activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee receives democracy prize (Rundschau Online)
- Report: Civil rights activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee receives democracy prize (Blog der Republik)
- Report: Leymah Roberta Gbowee awarded the Bonn International Democracy Prize 2018 (Bonn Sustainability Portal)
- Report: Liberian wmoen activist awarded 2018 Bonn International Democracy Prize (African Courier)
Laureate 2016: Federica Mogherini
- Press release Federica Mogherini awarded the Bonn International Democracy Prize
- Portrait of Federica Mogherini
- Opening of the award ceremony Prof. Jürgen Wilhelm
- Speech by the Lord Mayor of the City of Bonn Ashok Sridharan on the occasion of the award ceremony
- Speech by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice
- Documentation of the award ceremony for Federica Mogherini