Every year the OSCE Secretary General presents Gender Equality Champion awards recognizing exceptional achievements by OSCE leaders, individual women and men, teams or projects to promote gender equality. OSCE Gender Equality Champions are nominated early in the year and the awards are presented on or around International Women’s Day on March 8. Read the stories of how the imagination and perseverance of OSCE Gender Champions are putting the OSCE’s strong commitment to gender equality into action.