Kanitha Wichiencharoen
Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).
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Lai Maizi
Chinese feminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist
Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan politician, a human rights advocate, a writer, and a women’s rights activist.
Ramnie Dinat
South African anti-apartheid activist
Franca Viola
Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a “rehabilitating marriage” to her rapist. She is considered the first Italian woman to publicly do so.
Guo Jianmei
Chinese lawyer, human rights advocate and women’s rights activist
He-Yin Zhen
Chinese feminist and anarchist
Maria Ressa
Nobel-winning Filipina journalist and human 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.