Human Rights Defender

This page lists 3,225 biographies of human rights defenders, covering lives from 1474 to 2010. Featuring Andrei Sakharov, Igor Shafarevich and Kenneth Roth. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Vasile Paraschiv

1928 – 2011

Jessica St. Rose

Ronit Avni

Wai Hnin Pwint Thon

b. 1989

Rodrigo Diamanti

b. 1983

Rafał Kownacki

b. 1980

Balghis Badri

b. 1948

Mehraveh Khandan

b. 2000

Vladimir Mijanović

1946 – 2021

Vicky Spratt

b. 1988

Haris Azhar

b. 1975

Isakhan Ashurov

1955 – 2012

Nicolasa Quintremán

1939 – 2013

Sandra Aceng

Ned Holstein

Lau Ng A-tho

1923 – 2011

Tiwagorn Withiton

b. 1975

Emma Sinclair-Webb

b. 2000

Martin Ennals

1927 – 1991

Marta Welander

b. 1950

Nguyễn Đặng Minh Mẫn

b. 1985

Jorge Luis González Tanquero

1970 – 2016

Nurcan Baysal

b. 1975

Lesbia Urquía

1967 – 2016

Fauzia Viqar

Sergia Galván Ortega

b. 1955

Mother Pollard

b. 1885

Fred Shuttlesworth

1922 – 2011

Mikhlif Alshammari

b. 1955

Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez

1951 – 2017

Rodrigo Mundaca

b. 1961

Leon Sullivan

1922 – 2001

Bùi Thanh Hiếu

b. 1972

Valeriy Marchenko

1947 – 1984

Anchana Heemmina

Đinh Thị Thu Thủy

b. 1982

Duško Kostić

b. 1984

Guan Heng

Suliman al-Reshoudi

b. 1937

Gregory C. Carr

b. 1959

Karen Chandler Pryor

b. 1957

Teruaki Masumoto

b. 1955

Dan McIntyre

1950 – 2001

Ketakandriana Rafitoson

Roza Salih

b. 1989

Semra Çağlar Gökalp

b. 1988

Aktham Naisse

1951 – 2022

Olena Shevchenko

b. 1982

Rhoda Kadalie

1953 – 2022

Luisa Cuesta

1925 – 2018

Ginetta Sagan

1925 – 2000

Linda Andre

1959 – 2023

Randall Robinson

1941 – 2023

Margarita Sánchez De León

b. 1956

Hennou Allali

1941 – 2026

Eva Kurilets

Ophelia Dahl

b. 1964

Shailendra Pandya

b. 1987

Julia Chuñir Catricura

b. 1952

Peter Dahlin

b. 1980

Shahindha Ismail

Alyeh Hulak

1967 – 2022

Yosyf Zisels

b. 1946

Diane Orentlicher

Abdulrahman al-Khalidi

b. 1993

TM Garret

b. 1975

Lorent Saleh

b. 1988

Mahmudul Haque Munshi

b. 1987

Yue Xin

b. 1990

Richard Anderson Falk

b. 1930

Vesna Teršelič

b. 1962

Shin Suk-ja

1942 – 2008

Jacqueline Moudeina

b. 1957

Malika Umazheva

1947 – 2002

Bohdan Hermaniuk

1931 – 2008

Anna Mokrousova

b. 1981

Mick Dodson

b. 1950

Mia Farrow

b. 1945

Heba Elsewedy

b. 1973

Madi jobarteh

b. 1971

Pharis Harvey

1935 – 2026

Uusarqak Qujaukitsoq

1948 – 2018

Rossana Reguillo

1955 – 2026

Rosa Catrileo Arias

b. 1981

Laurie Lola Vollen

Robert Sann Aung

b. 1954

Ilie Moscovici

1885 – 1943

Vladimir Slepak

1927 – 2015

Ali al-Abdallah

b. 1950

Shane Ryan

b. 1969

Manjula Pradeep

b. 1969

Myintzu Win

Khadija Gbla

Edvin Kanka Ćudić

b. 1988

Ishtar Lakhani

b. 1985

Elaine Rosa Salo

1962 – 2016

Tanveer Jahan

b. 1962

Leonard Roy Frank

1932 – 2015

Yuri Kochiyama

1921 – 2014

Peter Huang

b. 1937