Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist
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Urvashi Vaid
Indian-American lawyer and activist noted for her LGBTQ+ activism and leadership of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force during the AIDS crisis.
Maria da Penha
Brazilian survivor of domestic violence who campaigned for legal changes that established stricter sentences for physical offenders, promotd rehabilitation programs for perpetrators, and offered 24-hour police stations and shelters for abused women.
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
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).
Eunice Hunton Carter
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Charlotte E Ray
The first African-American woman to become a lawyer in the U.S.