Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Meyer Brownstone
1922 – 2019
Khalil Maatouk
b. 2000
Djamila Ribeiro
b. 1980
Amna Guellali
b. 1972
Pauliina Feodoroff
b. 1977
Ahmad Isah
Delina Fico
Mario Enrique Ríos Montt
1932 – 2026
Cora Ratto de Sadosky
1912 – 1981
Ibtihal Al-Khatib
b. 1972
Kagiso Lesego Molope
b. 1976
Harry Leslie Smith
1923 – 2018
Levko Lukianenko
1928 – 2018
Satendra Singh
Karin Refos
b. 1958
Jello Biafra
b. 1958
David Kretzmer
b. 1943
Sameh Naguib
Huỳnh Thục Vy
b. 1985
Polina Zherebtsova
b. 1985
Anatoly Yakobson
1935 – 1978
Malcolm X
1925 – 1965
Alicia Cuaron
b. 1939
Anatoly Koryagin
b. 1938
Elizabeth Blackwell
1821 – 1910
Fatima Chohan
Eric Lewis
Musola Cathrine Kaseketi
b. 1968
Juan Carlos González Leiva
b. 1965
Dan Massey
1942 – 2013
Champa Devi Shukla
Patricia Swift Blalock
1914 – 2011
J. Charles Jones
1937 – 2019
Amar Singh
b. 1989
Andrey Tverdokhlebov
1940 – 2011
Mama Koite Doumbia
b. 1950
Kourosh Sehati
b. 1978
Jezima Ismail
b. 1935
José Castellanos Contreras
1893 – 1977
Viktor Nekipelov
1928 – 1989
Alejandra Caraballo
b. 1990
Rajagopal P. V.
b. 1948
Abid Hassan Minto
b. 1932
Monique Ilboudo
b. 1959
Marek Antoni Nowicki
b. 1953
Mona Winberg
1932 – 2009
Bolaji Owasanoye
b. 1963
Dimitrios Roussopoulos
b. 1936
Jestina Mukoko
b. 2000
Hajer Al-Sharief
b. 1994
Michel Forst
b. 1953
Maria Pau Trayner i Vilanova
1936 – 2025
Atena Pashko
1931 – 2012
Andrea Tuana
b. 1969
Augustus Granville Dill
1881 – 1956
Adam Jones
b. 1963
Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
1868 – 1957
Suad Ibrahim Ahmed
1935 – 2013
Nellie McClung
1873 – 1951
Manizha
b. 1991
Dmitri Muratov
b. 1961
Alina Margolis-Edelman
1922 – 2008
Mihai Botez
1940 – 1995
Minnie Bruce Pratt
1946 – 2023
Alex Neve
b. 1962
Huria Mashoor
Van Jones
b. 1968
Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh
b. 1952
Babubhai P. Vaidya
1909 – 1979
Eva Merkacheva
b. 1978
Trần Thị Nga
b. 1977
Héctor Timerman
1953 – 2018
Marta Beatriz Roque
b. 1945
George Broadhead
1933 – 2021
Biljana Srbljanović
b. 1970
Javier Giraldo
1944 – 2026
Freddy Lim
b. 1976
Anwar al-Bunni
b. 1959
Daniel Bekele
b. 1967
Aneeta Prem
b. 2000
Lê Đình Lượng
b. 1965
Telésforo Santiago Enriquez
1972 – 2019
Doğan Akhanlı
1957 – 2021
Igino Giordani
1894 – 1980
Arseny Roginsky
1946 – 2017
Carmen Hertz
b. 1945
Henry Richard Fox Bourne
1837 – 1909
Sami Ben Gharbia
b. 1967
He Weifang
b. 1960
Igor Kochetkov
b. 1970
Samantha Power
b. 1970
Miriam Noemí Ríos
1985 – 2024
Sergio D'Elia
b. 1952
Alexander Ratiu
1916 – 2002
Ahn Myong-Chul
b. 1969
Liu Xia
b. 1961
Gabriel Andreescu
b. 1952
Bruno Manser
1954 – 2005
Farida Shaheed
b. 1950
Mohsin Dawar
b. 1984