Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Inge Sargent
1932 – 2023
Philo Ikonya
b. 1959
Farah Baker
b. 1998
Ogulsapar Myradowa
1948 – 2006
Sarah Wykes
b. 1965
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
1920 – 1993
Lao Mong Hay
María Corina Machado
b. 1967
Jalila Khamis Koko
b. 1968
Tiawan Saye Gongloe
b. 1956
S.M. Zafar
1930 – 2023
Orquidea Tamayo Mortera
Fabiola Letelier
1929 – 2021
Yun Hyon-seok
1984 – 2003
Şafak Pavey
b. 1976
Ali Khan Masood
b. 1949
Maziar Bahari
b. 1967
Jane Elliott
b. 1933
Gautam Navlakha
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
b. 1968
Hossam Bahgat
b. 1978
Anahit Manasyan
b. 1988
Amiel Vardi
b. 1955
Hilaria Supa
b. 1957
Josephine Effah-Chukwuma
b. 1966
Rima Hassan
b. 1992
Gihan Ibrahim
b. 1988
Shiva Nazar Ahari
b. 1984
Feng Yuan
b. 1962
Zaha Hassan
Bob Minton
1946 – 2010
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
1937 – 2021
Lélia Gonzalez
1935 – 1994
Arjan El Fassed
b. 1973
Gordon Hirabayashi
1918 – 2012
Kohki Abe
b. 1958
Michealene Risley
b. 1950
Mary-Woo Sims
Héctor Abad Gómez
1921 – 1987
Mary Harris Jones
1830 – 1930
Najwa Alimi
b. 1994
Roman Matys
b. 1978
Armand Lévy
1827 – 1891
Patricia M. Derian
1929 – 2016
Thomas Szasz
1920 – 2012
Elizabeth Mpofu
b. 1959
Malachi Ritscher
1954 – 2006
Shanthi Sachithanandam
1958 – 2015
Sherry Johnson
b. 1961
Saïda Keller-Messahli
b. 1957
Elizardo Sanchez
b. 1944
Khin Ohmar
b. 1968
Mümtaz Soysal
1929 – 2019
Lucia Alberti
b. 1944
Aleksandr Maysuryan
b. 1969
Niloofar Beyzaie
b. 1967
Saša Vučinić
b. 1901
Shami Chakrabarti
b. 1969
Richard Gere
b. 1949
Naomi Gal
Akın Birdal
b. 1948
Zeng Jinyan
b. 1983
Jerome J. Shestack
1923 – 2011
Harry Schwarz
1924 – 2010
Ebru Timtik
1978 – 2020
Festus Keyamo
b. 1970
Pedro Argüelles Morán
b. 1948
Osman Kavala
b. 1957
Michael Espinoza Coila
b. 1991
Fernando Rospigliosi
b. 1947
Ibrahim Metwaly
b. 1960
Tin Oo
1927 – 2024
Mahnaz Afkhami
b. 1941
Francis Xavier Kojo Sosu
b. 1979
Bulelani Mfaco
Baskın Oran
b. 1945
P. G. T. Beauregard
1818 – 1893
Ibtissame Lachgar
b. 1975
Andrei Sakharov
1921 – 1989
Ion Cârja
1922 – 1977
Frederika Alexis Cull
b. 1999
Viktor Popkov
1946 – 2001
Diana Miloslavich
b. 1953
Ali Abdulemam
Sueli Carneiro
b. 1950
Milka Chepkorir
b. 1990
Iyad el-Baghdadi
b. 1977
Toujan al-Faisal
b. 1948
Hryhorii Kochur
1908 – 1994
Joseph Shapotshnick
1882 – 1937
Nazand Begikhani
b. 1964
Bob van den Bos
b. 1947
Angela Davis
b. 1944
Saraswathi Gora
1912 – 2006
Anat Biletzki
b. 1952
Patricia Beeman
1925 – 1996
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
b. 2000
Domenico Modugno
1928 – 1994
Ryu Seong-hyeon
Bessie Coleman
1892 – 1926