Fatima Meer
South African activist and academic
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Sheila Weinberg
South African political, anti-apartheid and human rights activist
Grace d’Almeida
Beninese lawyer, feminist and human rights activist
Dr Stella Nyanzi
Ugandan medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a political activist who campaigns for women and girls rights, as well as the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
Ncumisa Kondlo
South African human rights and gender justice activist
Emily Hobhouse
British humanitarian and pacifist active in South Africa
Priscilla Jana
Indian-South African lawyer and human rights activist
Cheryl Carolus
South African diplomat, businesswoman and human rights activist
Wendy Heather Woods
South African activist
Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.