Poomoney Moodley
Indian-South African political activist
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Zhang Haidi
Chinese disability rights activist
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.
Beatrice Vio
Italian Paralympic fencing champion and activist
Dr Chieko Asakawa
Dr. Chieko Asakawa is a prominent inventor of software that aided in the development of accessibility technology.
Claudia L Gordon
In 2000, Claudia L. Gordon became the first Deaf Black female lawyer in the U.S.
Sheila Cussons
South African writer and painter
Christine Costner Sizemore
Mental health advocate on whom the Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is based
Sandra Cano
Anonymous defendant in the 1970s U.S. abortion rights case Doe v. Bolton
Connie Mofokeng
After the Soweto uprising, Mofokeng was one of the hundreds detained. While in detention she was beaten and tortured in an attempt to gain information, but she kept silent.