Human Rights Award 2009 by the Volksgruppe der Donauschwaben is awarded to Dr. Brigitte Neary of the University of South Carolina In Spartanburg, USA. Dr. Brigitte Neary is a German-American. Her father is a Donauschwab from Indjija in Syrmia. Donautal-Magazine wrote: "The Award Committee of the Volksgruppe der Donauschwaben e. V. has unanimously decided to honor Prof. Dr. Brigitte Neary of the University of South Carolina in Spartanburg USA with the Humans Rights Prize 2009 of the Volksgruppe der Donauschwaben e. V. The professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies is receiving the prize for her book “Women and the Expulsion”. The Donauschwaben Volksgruppe thereby acknowledges that in her book Dr. Brigitte Neary presents a fundamental work about the problems of women during and after the Second World War, as millions of people were expelled from their homeland. In this way she spotlights on both sides off the Atlantic the sociological, psychological, historical and legal aspects of this form of “ethnic cleansing” Her books “Frauen und Vertreibung” (Ares Verlag 200l8) and in the English language title ”Voices of Loss and Courage (Picton Press 2009) leads to further important questions and opens the way to further research into this subject area." Rosina www.hrastovac.net