On May 25th, at the beginning of the second day of the IPCI conference in Istanbul, the conference agenda was punctuated with the first edition of the EPF Awards. These were an idea of Hon. George Tsereteli, MP (EPF President), and were envisaged as a concrete way to draw the attention of IPCI’s participants to the real champions that are at work in the Population and Development field. For no such award has hitherto existed.

Candidates were nominated by EPF’s APPGs and its trusted partners, and the winners were selected by an independent selection panel containing members of parliaments (past and present) committed to SRHR issues, representatives of the CSO community, one of EPF’s APPG secretariats and the secretary of the Romanian Senate’s Subcommittee on Population and Development.

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the inaugural 2012 EPF Awards are as follows:

Recognition of Distinguished Service:

Campaigning and Mobilisation for SRHR:

Champion of Women’s and Girls’ Rights:

International Legislative Champion:

European Legislative Champion:

We would like to send our deepest congratulations to all six of the winners, and hope that their efforts will serve as an example to the rest of the SRHR community. And we hope that this award will serve as an incentive for them to continue and redouble their efforts in fighting for SRHR for all the world’s most vulnerable people.