Jahanara Imam
Bangladeshi writer and political activist known for her work to bring war criminals to trial during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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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
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).
Susi Pudjiastuti
Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
Claudia L Gordon
In 2000, Claudia L. Gordon became the first Deaf Black female lawyer in the U.S.
Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan’s first female prime minister