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