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.
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Adriana Patricia Quintero Úsuga
Colombian human rights activist
Amy Beeder
Poet Amy Beeder is the author of Burn the Field (2006) and Now Make An Altar (2012).
Ma Hnin Yee Htun Win
In 2015, Ma Hnin returned to Myanmar and opened a bar, Father’s Office. A controversial move for a woman in ultra-conservative Myanmar, Father’s Office quickly became an inclusive space where cultural and gender divides were dismantled.
May Keating
Irish socialist, feminist and human rights campaigner
Miriam O’Brien
Irish religious sister, educator, and aid worker in west Africa
Pamela Bone
Pamela Bone was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her promotion of human rights as a journalist.
Zuleikha Mayat
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
Roma Mitchell
Australian lawyer and judge
Ione Kenny Biggs
American advocate for peace and human rights