Gisèle Pelicot was in her late 60s when police revealed that her husband of 50 years had been drugging, raping, and allowing other men to rape her for almost a decade. By declining the option of a closed-door trial with full anonymity and no media, she ensured that the dozens of men who assaulted her would have to face the public, at the cost that she would as well.
Subject of manifestations in the Great Amherst Mystery
Irish woman accused of being a witch in the 1600s
1920s Italian-Canadian convicted murderer
1700s and 1800s Irish practitioner of ‘white’ magic, using herbal and superstitious remedies to cure various ailments.
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