Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Funmi Falana
Janusz Symonides
1938 – 2020
Ambiga Sreenevasan
b. 1956
Reed Brody
b. 1953
Sinem Saban
Enei Begaye
Sara Omar
b. 1986
K. Balagopal
1952 – 2009
Josefina Klinger Zúñiga
b. 1965
Khassan Baiev
b. 1963
Aviâja Egede Lynge
b. 1974
Eunice Musiime
Manuel Ray Rivero
1924 – 2013
Sara Khan
b. 1980
Ahmed Seada
b. 1983
Michael Posner
b. 1950
Suzan Zengin
1959 – 2011
Chow Hang-tung
b. 1985
Olasubomi Aina
b. 1978
Snehalata Reddy
1932 – 1977
Oswaldo Payá
1952 – 2012
Ioannis Psycharis
1854 – 1929
Laura Pollán
1948 – 2011
Keyvan Rafiee
Shadi Amin
b. 1964
Saadia Mosbah
b. 1960
Hevrin Khalaf
1984 – 2019
Chiu Hsien-chih
b. 1976
Hilal Mammadov
b. 1959
Shripad Mahadev Mate
1886 – 1957
Galina Arapova
b. 1972
Betty Shabazz
1934 – 1997
Alaa al-Siddiq
1988 – 2021
Rajinder Sachar
1923 – 2018
Morten Kjærum
b. 1957
Arzu Geybullayeva
b. 1983
John Walsh
b. 1945
Anup Singh Choudry
b. 1949
Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff
Yael Dayan
1939 – 2024
Al Sharpton
b. 1954
Aung San Suu Kyi
b. 1945
Razan Zaitouneh
b. 1977
Shirin Ebadi
b. 1947
Carlos Auyero
1936 – 1997
Sarah Mkhonza
b. 1957
Mohamed Latheef
1951 – 2022
Felix Ermacora
1923 – 1995
Parvin Ardalan
b. 1967
Aliyah Saleem
b. 1989
Khadija Ryadi
b. 1960
Zulfiqar Shah
b. 1977
Domingo Namuncura Serrano
b. 1952
Glenn Magpantay
Rez Gardi
b. 1991
Igor Shafarevich
1923 – 2017
Anastasia Lin
b. 1990
Jonathan Swift
1667 – 1745
Fadhila Boumendjel-Chitour
b. 1942
Zahra Eshraghi
b. 1964
Abdolkarim Lahidji
b. 1940
Aakar Patel
Lev Ponomaryov
b. 1941
Azimzhan Askarov
1951 – 2020
Mehrangiz Kar
b. 1944
Cecilia Flores
b. 1973
Rosa Freedman
b. 1983
Zhanna Nemtsova
b. 1984
Ali Ben Salem
1931 – 2023
Kannavee Suebsang
b. 1976
Jeanette Solstad Remø
b. 1949
Wael Abbas
b. 1974
Natiq Malikzada
b. 1995
Kirthi Jayakumar
b. 1987
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
b. 1951
Gillian Anderson
b. 1968
Maya Ulanovskaya
1932 – 2020
Harsh Mander
b. 1956
Bob Avakian
b. 1943
Amina Abubakar Bello
b. 1973
Oriyomi Hamzat
Abdi İpekçi
1929 – 1979
Sara Curruchich
b. 1993
James L. Farmer, Jr.
1920 – 1999
Rosa Parks
1913 – 2005
Parag Kumar Das
1961 – 1996
Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli
David Kilgour
1941 – 2022
Sihem Bensedrine
b. 1950
Jiichirō Matsumoto
1887 – 1966
Saadet Özkan
b. 1978
Kouhyar Goudarzi
b. 1986
Phil Zimmermann
b. 1954
Aslı Erdoğan
b. 1967
Soraya Miré
b. 1961
Peter Garrett
b. 1953
Inger Lise Husøy
b. 1957
Muna Luqman
Salma Luévano
b. 1968
Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez
1943 – 2026