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Helen Zia

American anti-racism, women’s rights and LGBTQIA+ rights activist

Founded the 9to5 organization to fight for working women’s rights. They successfully fought for the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and many more national policies that prohibit workplace discrimination and harassment.

Kanitha Wichiencharoen

Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).

Lai Maizi

Chinese feminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist

Marielle Franco

Brazilian politician and activist for women’s rights, human rights and LGBT rights

Matilde Hidalgo

Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.

Na Hyesŏk

Korean activist, poet, journalist and painter

Shidzue Katō

Japanese birth control and abortion rights activist

Simone Veil

French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).