What is International Women of Courage Award?
{{update|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox award | name = International Women of Courage Award | image = 2012 IWOC Award winners with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michelle Obama.jpg | imagesize = 300px | alt = | caption = The winners, presenters, and guests at the 2012 International Women of Courage Awards, March 8, 2012. Back row, from left: [[Melanne Verveer]] (guest), [[Leymah Gbowee]] (guest), [[Shad Begum]], [[Aneesa Ahmed]], [[Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih]], [[Samar Badawi]], [[Tawakel Karman]] (guest). Front row, from left: [[Maryam Durani]], [[Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo]], [[Zin Mar Aung]], [[Michelle Obama]], [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], [[Jineth Bedoya Lima]], [[Hana Elhebshi]], [[Şafak Pavey]]. | description = | presenter = [[United States Department of State]] | date = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | location = [[Washington, D. C.]] | country = United States | reward = | year = {{start date and age|2007}} | year2 = | website = [http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/ Secretary's International Women of Courage Award] }} The '''International Women of Courage Award''' is an American award. Every year the [[United States Department of State]] gives the award to women around the world who have shown the ability to lead other people, the ability to do something that they know is difficult or dangerous, the ability to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems, and who are ready to give up something to help to make people aware of [[women's rights]]. ==History== [[United States Secretary of State|U. S. Secretary of State]] [[Condoleezza Rice]] started the award in 2007, on March 8, [[International Women's Day]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Perkins, Dan|date= May 2007|url= http://www.diversityinbusiness.com/dib2007/dib20703/News_SecRiceAwards.htm| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140422232926/http://www.diversityinbusiness.com/dib2007/dib20703/News_SecRiceAwards.htm |archive-date=2014-04-22|title= U.S. Secretary of State Salutes 10 International Women of Courage{{