About Simone Veil
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.
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Awards & Honors
Charlemagne Prize
Heinrich Heine Prize
North–South Prize
Monismanien Prize
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plaque
European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma
Schiller Prize of Marbach
Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
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Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
Order of the Three Stars, 2nd Class
honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles
honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
golden class of the honour medal for Health and Social Affairs
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
honorary doctorate from Princeton University
honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
honorary citizen of Brussels
honorary doctor of Brandeis University
honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
