Nadia Anjuman
Afghan poet murdered by her husband
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Nadia Murad
Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS
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.
Anita Hill
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.
Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo
Activist who accused South African president Jacob Zuma of rape
Ann Lovett
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
Sathima Bea Benjamin
South African jazz singer and composer, and anti-apartheid activist
Léonie Abo
Congolese writer and activist Léonie Abo is best known for her role in the 1963-65 Kwilu rebellion.
Sarah Baartman
Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus
Ann Glover
The last person executed in Boston as a witch