Bogaletch Gebre is a Human Rights activist and president of the Kembatta Women's Self Help Center (KMG), an organization founded in 1997 that defends women's rights and fights against the practices of female genital mutilation, of which she was victim.
Bogaletch Gebre was the first woman to enter the Faculty of Science at Addis Ababa University. He also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Massachusetts in the United States.
In addition to defending women's rights, Bogaletch Gebre participated in several fundraising campaigns to help victims of hunger in Ethiopia.
In 2005 she was awarded the North-South prize of the Council of Europe, in recognition of her work in the protection of Human Rights, in the defense of democracy and relations of solidarity between the North and the South.
The Kembatta Women's Self-Help Center (KMG), the organization she chairs, develops a program with community outreach, providing education and support to local women on reproductive health issues, vocational training, credit and income generation programs so that women can become economically self-sufficient and independent.
The award ceremony for the VI Foundation for Justice Prize will take place in the first week of July 2007, and will be attended by the winner and the president of the jury, Nurhajan Begum, CEO of Grameen Bank, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The jury was made up of the president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, the president of Bancaja, José Luis Olivas, the president of the Official Credit Institute, Aurelio Martínez, and the dean of the Valencia Bar Association, Francisco Real.
Also members of the jury were the president of the Valencia Water Court, Francisco Pastor, the representative of the Association of Victims of Terrorism, Irene Villa, the representative of the Association for the Search for Missing Children of El Salvador, José R. Juaniz, and the president of the Foundation for Justice, José María Tomás.