Activism > Gendered Violence Archives

Rosie Batty

Australian anti-violence activist

Gisèle Pelicot was in her late 60s when police revealed that her husband of 50 years had been drugging, raping, and allowing other men to rape her for almost a decade. By declining the option of a closed-door trial with full anonymity and no media, she ensured that the dozens of men who assaulted her would have to face the public, at the cost that she would as well.

Lois Jenson

Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit

Nise Bulelwa Malange

South African writer, documentary filmmaker, artist and activist

Theresa Kachindamoto

Malawian paramount chief and activist who used her authority to dissolve over 3,500 child marriages and advocate for education for both girls and boys

Maria da Penha

Brazilian survivor of domestic violence who campaigned for legal changes that established stricter sentences for physical offenders, promotd rehabilitation programs for perpetrators, and offered 24-hour police stations and shelters for abused women.

Nadia Murad

Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS

Donaldina Cameron

New Zealand-American social reformer who worked to protect Chinese women and girls from trafficking

Franca Viola

Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a “rehabilitating marriage” to her rapist. She is considered the first Italian woman to publicly do so.

Lai Maizi

Chinese feminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist