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.
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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
Eunice Hunton Carter
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Eulalie Stott
South African political activist
Emily Hobhouse
British humanitarian and pacifist active in South Africa
Ela Gandhi
Indian-South African peace and civil rights activist
Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Anna Helfgott
Anna Helfgott was a vigorous activist for progressive causes and a leader in Seattle’s Gray Panthers. In her working years she was a dressmaker and fitter, and was an early member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU).