Marielle Franco
Brazilian politician and activist for women’s rights, human rights and LGBT rights
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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).
Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Dr Dorothy Klenke Nash
American neurosurgeon
Lin Qiaozhi
20th century Chinese doctor