Activism > Human Rights Archives

Ione Kenny Biggs

American advocate for peace and human rights

Dr Souheir Edelbi

Seeds of commitment to Palestinian liberation began to sow in Souheir Edelbi at a young age as she learned about the Nakba and oppression faced by Palestinians from her father.

Sue Salthouse

Australian human rights and disability rights activist

Andrea Durbach

South African-Australian human rights advocate

Isabel Vericat Núñez

Spanish-Mexican lawyer, writer, researcher and translator.

Irene Gomez-Bethke, a daughter of Mexican parents who immigrated to Minnesota, played a leadership role in bending the arc of history toward social justice, serving as Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights, guiding boards and commissions as a volunteer, and co-founding both Centro Cultural Chicano and Instituto de Arte y Cultura.

Mitsuye Yamada

Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Sabrene Odeh

Palestinian-American activist

Velma Veloria

In 1992, Veloria became the first Filipina in the United States to be elected to a state legislature.

Asieh Amini

Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.