Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist Clara González became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922, the same year she established the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage.
Komape fought for the rights of workers through trade unions, and for the rights of women in South Africa.
Maria Ndlovu is a GIPA (UN Programme for the Greater Involvement for People Living with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in Johannesburg.
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.
Afghan poet murdered by her husband
Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS
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.
By telling her own story of repeated harassment from a man in power, Anita Hill amplified the voices of millions of other women and men struggling with workplace harassment.
Activist who accused South African president Jacob Zuma of rape
Irish teen whose death sparked a national outcry, highlighting the treatment of teenage and unmarried mothers, as well as legal restrictions on contraception and the failings of the state in the provision of sex education