Marga Bührig Prize for Dr Paulina Hauser

In her dissertation, Dr Paulina Hauser deals with the human rights of women worldwide from an ethical point of view, which represent a difficult key point in discourses on gender and culture. The interdisciplinary and culturally sensitive study systematically explores the topic of women's human rights from a global perspective. Gender-specific aspects of human rights violations are analysed; philosophical, socio-theoretical and socio-ethical perspectives are discussed. The structural and symbolic realisation of gender justice is presented in this study as an approach to sustainably protect women's human rights.

The jury recognised Paulina Hauser's work as "extraordinarily important and relevant for our time". It is "an urgent appeal for a transformation of society as a whole". Hauser reminds us that church actors must also be part of an "alliance of the willing" in order to come closer to real justice.