Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
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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.
Rostyslava Nychay Bohachevsky
Activist in the Ukrainian Women’s League, travelling through villages, setting up kindergartens, and health and legal-aid cooperatives.
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Madi Gray
South African anti-apartheid activist
Maria Ndlovu
Maria Ndlovu is a GIPA (UN Programme for the Greater Involvement for People Living with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in Johannesburg.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
South African politician, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
South African politician and 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
Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati
Burmese-Indian cardiologist