Ruth Alexander
South African suffragist
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Ruth Mompati
South African anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist
Tania Leon
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Sheila Lapinsky
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Mabel Sharman Crawford
1800s Irish author and feminist reformer
Sadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa
Bernard Ncube
South African nun and activist
Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
Vilma Espín
One of the first women in Cuba to study chemical engineering, graduating from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was mostly known as one of the leading Cuban revolutionaries, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro.
Grace d’Almeida
Beninese lawyer, feminist and human rights activist