Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Suzanne Arms
b. 1945
Ebenezer Norman
b. 1981
Wang Yu
b. 1971
Vasyl Stus
1938 – 1985
Maire Leadbeater
b. 1945
Leolinda Daltro
1859 – 1935
Peter Takirambudde
Alcira de la Peña
1910 – 1998
Stokely Carmichael
1941 – 1998
Virginia Fraser
1928 – 2011
Pamela O'Malley
1929 – 2006
Valérie Cabanes
b. 1969
Farzana Bari
b. 1952
Arif Md Yeasin Jwadder
Sai Khaing Myo Tun
Montaser Abdullah
Kang Chol-hwan
b. 1968
Linda Carol Brown
1943 – 2018
Andrei Babushkin
1964 – 2022
Huey P. Newton
1942 – 1989
Lewis St. George Stubbs
1878 – 1958
Amira Osman Hamed
b. 1976
Sonia Nassery Cole
b. 1968
Thanh Hai Ngo
b. 1947
Monica Tabengwa
b. 1971
Nana Riwayatie
b. 1960
Adelina Dematti de Alaye
1927 – 2016
Liu Xiaobo
1955 – 2017
Sergei Yushenkov
1950 – 2003
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
b. 1991
Edmon Marukyan
b. 1981
Austin Dacey
b. 1972
Michael Ratner
1943 – 2016
Dede Oetomo
b. 1953
Tach Sharakat
Dimitar Anakiev
b. 1960
Vera Duarte
b. 1952
Alexander Ginzburg
1936 – 2002
Tarek Hussein
b. 1993
Sonali Khan
Alexander S. Potupa
1945 – 2009
Ramziya al-Iryani
1954 – 2013
Clemantine Wamariya
b. 1988
Ida B. Wells
1862 – 1931
Grisell Pérez Rivera
1983 – 2021
Yaou Aïssatou
b. 1951
Rabab al-Sadr
b. 1944
Sunil Verma
1972 – 2006
Tongam Rina
b. 2000
Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang
1949 – 1990
Bill Browder
b. 1964
Roya Toloui
b. 1966
Jamal Malyar
b. 1992
Álvaro Gil-Robles
b. 1944
Salima Ghezali
b. 1958
Jim Boyce
b. 1941
W. Harry Davis
1923 – 2006
Hassan Omar Hassan
b. 1975
Clotario Blest
1899 – 1990
Barbara McInnis
1935 – 2003
Hide Hyodo Shimizu
1908 – 1999
Gao Yu
b. 1944
Joseph Nevins
b. 1964
Abdul Qadir Baloch
b. 1945
Raif Badawi
b. 1984
Milly Nassolo
Shivlinga Shivacharya
1916 – 2020
Eliezer Silver
1882 – 1968
Uri Avnery
1923 – 2018
Navleen Kumar
1940 – 2002
Mike Farrell
b. 1939
Adelina Nicholls
Bojan Aleksov
b. 1970
Abbie Hoffman
1936 – 1989
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
b. 1943
Sima Samar
b. 1957
Pasquale Foresi
1929 – 2015
Antônia Melo
b. 1949
Orhan Kemal Cengiz
b. 2000
Line Bareiro
1950 – 2026
Roberto de Miranda
b. 1947
Yuri Galanskov
1939 – 1972
Maha Mamo
b. 1988
Lucy Kurien
b. 1956
Anita Hill
b. 1956
Abdulrahman Akkad
b. 1998
Medgar Evers
1925 – 1963
Georgette Barsoum
Susana Rinaldi
b. 1935
Matthew Daniels
Martinho da Costa Lopes
1918 – 1991
Arvind Gaur
b. 1963
Cesar Chavez
1927 – 1993
Luis Andres Vargas Gomez
1915 – 2003
Maria Campbell
b. 1940
Ivan Hel
1937 – 2011
K. G. Kannabiran
1929 – 2010
Fausia
b. 1990
Shimon Solomon
b. 1968
Mukhtaran Bibi
b. 1972