Ramnie Dinat
South African anti-apartheid activist
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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.
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).