Eibhlín Nic Niocaill
Irish Gaelic League activist
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Eileen O’Faolain
Irish political activist and children’s book author
Nomvula Mokonyane
South African politician
Paula Ensor
South African anti-apartheid activist and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town
Pauline Podbrey
South African Communist activist
Nomkhosi Mary Mini
South African activist killed in the maseru Massacre in 1982
Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.
Gisèle Rabesahala
Malagasy politician and activist Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Madagascar’s federal government in 1977, as well as the country’s first woman municipal councilor and the first Malagasy woman to establish and lead a political party.
Gail Johnson
Founder of a facility for HIV-positive mothers and children in South Africa
Phyllis Altman
As the secretary-general of the IDAF, Altman ran various secret operations to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases.