Alva Myrdal
Swedish diplomat, government minister, and author Alva Myrdal received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her work advocating for nuclear disarmament.
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Barbara Deming
American writer and activist for peace, human rights, and related causes.
Idola Saint-John
A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.
Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
Bess Bolden Walcott
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
Dr Virginia Bouvier
Senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the key international advisors to Colombia’s peace process with the FARC
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.
Jeanette Carlson
South African educator and anti-apartheid activist
Mary Ware Dennett
American women’s rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate and trailblazer in the areas of birth control, sex education and suffrage, who co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brazilian feminist and pacifist