Activism Archives - Page 39 of 319

Emma Revie

British food bank leader

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.

Jahanara Imam

Bangladeshi writer and political activist known for her work to bring war criminals to trial during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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

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.