Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Gameela Ismail
b. 1966
Oleg Orlov
b. 1953
Naw Ohn Hla
b. 1963
Geronimo Pratt
1947 – 2011
Edik Baghdasaryan
b. 1962
Laila Soueif
b. 1956
Vo Van Ai
1935 – 2023
Joumana Seif
b. 1970
Ian Hall
1940 – 2022
Padma Ratna Tuladhar
1940 – 2018
Andy Hall
b. 1979
Olaoluwa Abagun
b. 1992
Roh Su-hui
1944 – 2025
Bol Gai Deng
b. 1979
Jeanette Williams
1914 – 2008
Fredrick Mwenengabo
b. 1975
Nils Muižnieks
b. 1964
Larissa Kojoué
N. D. Cocea
1880 – 1949
Nikolai Girenko
1940 – 2004
Hezekiah Grice
1801 – 1863
Hatı Çırpan
1890 – 1956
Petra Gelbart
b. 1978
Hafez Abu Seada
1965 – 2020
Marilou McPhedran
b. 1951
Salimata Sawadogo
b. 1958
Predrag Balašević
b. 1974
Vann Nath
1946 – 2011
Terezija Stoisits
b. 1958
Vitalina Koval
b. 1990
Väinö Lassila
1896 – 1939
Mohammed Adel
b. 1988
Haytham Manna
b. 1951
Chiara Lubich
1920 – 2008
Yutong Su
b. 1976
Tuver Wundi
Jun Factoran
1944 – 2020
Yuri Schmidt
1937 – 2013
James Lawson
1928 – 2024
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
b. 1956
Ali Yahia Abdennour
1921 – 2021
Taner Kılıç
b. 1969
Rasul Bux Palejo
1930 – 2018
Francisco Chaviano
b. 1953
Siamak Ghaderi
b. 1967
Stanislav Markelov
1974 – 2009
Jeremy Pope
1938 – 2012
Pius Ncubep
b. 1946
Karim Alrawi
b. 1952
Kamran Mir Hazar
b. 1976
Evan Mawarire
b. 1977
Shi Tao
b. 1968
Joshua Reed Giddings
1795 – 1864
Siham Hassan
Victor Shenderovich
b. 1958
Mallika Sarabhai
b. 1954
Shaheen Anam
Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa
1909 – 2001
Ron Yosef
b. 1974
Shahid Nadeem
b. 1947
Qadria Yazdanparast
b. 1971
Manar al-Sharif
b. 1997
Alaa Abd El-Fatah
b. 1981
Prageeth Eknaligoda
Nomarussia Bonase
b. 1966
Kateryna Handziuk
1985 – 2018
Deon Haywood
b. 1968
Marcia Freedman
1938 – 2021
Suhaylah Abd-Jaafar
b. 1964
Abdulaziz al-Shubaily.
Leopold Katscher
1853 – 1939
David Hill
b. 1946
Jeri Laber
b. 1931
Saleh Kamrani
b. 1972
Kamal Qadir
b. 1958
Leslie Cannold
b. 1965
Nasir Aslam Zahid
b. 1935
Moira Rayner
b. 1948
John Feldmann
b. 1967
Clayton Ruby
1942 – 2022
Jurema Werneck
b. 1961
Lubna al-Hussein
b. 1973
Paul A. Winn
b. 1901
Carmen Casco de Lara Castro
1918 – 1993
Nguyễn Văn Đài
b. 1969
Rose Mukantabana
b. 1961
Justin Mudekereza Bisimwa
b. 1976
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
1872 – 1920
Vera Chirwa
b. 1932
Paul Bujor
1862 – 1952
Mehdi Zana
1940 – 2026
Valentina Cherevatenko
b. 1956
Elizaveta Glinka
1962 – 2016
Ilya Gabay
1935 – 1973
Carbone Beni
b. 1985
Steve Letsike
b. 1985
Michał Gieleta
b. 1974
Bobby Seale
b. 1936
Nikita Petrov
b. 1957
Mayann Francis
b. 1946