Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Dumitru Mazilu
b. 1934
Avraham Shifrin
1923 – 1998
Vattikota Alwar Swamy
1915 – 1961
P. P. Baburaj
b. 1965
Ahed Al-Tamimi
b. 2001
Lilian Tintori
b. 1978
Kimshin Myongsuk
b. 1961
Wei Tingting
b. 1989
Rosalina Tuyuc
b. 1956
Pauli Murray
1910 – 1985
Lois Galgay Reckitt
1944 – 2023
Abdul Hafeez Lakho
1928 – 2017
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
b. 1956
Aryeh Eliav
1921 – 2010
Ronaldo Lemos
b. 1976
Augusta Savage
1892 – 1962
Vladimir Ryzhkov
b. 1966
Ayaz Latif Palijo
b. 1968
Zakira Hekmat
Tzvia Greenfeld
b. 1945
Biram Dah Abeid
b. 1965
Girishbhai Patel
1932 – 2018
Naum Meiman
1912 – 2001
Jacob M. Appel
b. 1973
Azazet Habtezghi Kidane
Wang Quanzhang
b. 1976
Sofia Rusova
1856 – 1940
Mihnea Berindei
1948 – 2016
Nikolay Alexeyev
b. 1977
Tamara Tarasenko
1939 – 1992
Houshang Asadi
b. 1951
Andrey X
b. 1998
Lila Fenwick
1932 – 2020
Claudia Paz y Paz
b. 1966
Irina Volynets
b. 1978
Enn Tarto
1938 – 2021
Franklin Florence
1933 – 2023
Shokufeh Kavani
b. 1970
Tima Kurdi
b. 1970
Su Changlan
b. 1971
Betty Batoul
b. 1964
Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo
1957 – 2025
Pastora Filigrana
b. 1981
Anna Hutsol
b. 1984
Víctor Navarro
Rachel Corrie
1979 – 2003
Clara Breed
1906 – 1994
Maajid Nawaz
b. 1977
Leena Alam
b. 1978
Lionel Rosenblatt
1943 – 2026
Yonnette Fleming
b. 1968
Mauricio Valiente
b. 1966
Sylva Zalmanson
b. 1944
Mykhailo Melnyk
1944 – 1979
Nila Heredia
b. 1943
Irene Parlby
1868 – 1965
Christian Kobluk
b. 2000
Clarence Mini
1951 – 2020
Eric Heinze
b. 1961
Kajsa Wahlberg
b. 1901
Leonidas Iza
b. 1982
Jeong Yol
b. 1978
Sandra Morán
b. 1960
Xiong Yan
b. 1964
Julian Burnside
b. 1949
Piergiorgio Welby
1945 – 2006
François-Xavier Verschave
1945 – 2005
Luz Donoso
1921 – 2008
Doug Ireland
1946 – 2013
Wang Zaoshi
1903 – 1971
Lisa Menna
b. 1967
Roméo Dallaire
b. 1946
Shahriar Kabir
b. 1950
Kek Galabru
b. 1942
Steve Biddulph
b. 1953
Sydney Kentridge
b. 1922
Maria Ulfah Santoso
1911 – 1988
Mary Pillsbury Lord
1904 – 1978
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
1938 – 2023
Juana Calfunao
b. 1901
Michelle Alexander
b. 1967
Sheena Duncan
1932 – 2010
Carolyn Forché
b. 1950
Francisca Ramírez Torres
b. 1976
Yolanda Becerra Vega
b. 1959
Maha Jaafar
b. 1994
Darcus Howe
1943 – 2017
Richard Aoki
1938 – 2009
Çağla Akalın
b. 1990
Andrew Eiva
b. 1948
Kyaw Hla Aung
1940 – 2021
Benny Giay
b. 1955
Chanoknan Ruamsap
b. 1993
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
b. 1961
Atiaf Alwazir
Bogdan Globa
b. 1988
Canyon Sam
Alys Faiz
1915 – 2003
Lee Jung-hee
b. 1969
Osasu Edobor