Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Ali Wazir
b. 1976
Cynthia Maung
b. 1959
Roy Sesana
b. 1950
Alicia Herrera Rivera
1928 – 2013
Ferdinando Imposimato
1936 – 2018
Hebe de Bonafini
1928 – 2022
Chido Onumah
b. 1966
Roy Bourgeois
b. 1938
Marjorie Farquharson
1953 – 2016
Vladimir Pimonov
b. 1955
Osai Ojigho
b. 1976
Kevin Pina
Dmitry Yurasov
b. 1964
Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco
b. 1960
Alasdair Cochrane
b. 1978
Henrique Vieira
b. 1987
Vera Lúcia de Miranda Guarda
b. 1963
Saul Alinsky
1909 – 1972
Abdul Rahman al-Lahim
b. 1971
Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah
Duma Kumalo
1958 – 2006
Suzanne Jambo
Randa Siniora
b. 1961
Alyona Popova
b. 1983
Naela Chohan
b. 1958
Olu Onagoruwa
1936 – 2017
Abdessattar Ben Moussa
b. 1953
Haitham al-Maleh
b. 1931
Sy Koumbo Singa Gali
b. 1961
Yasmina Benslimane
b. 1994
Med Kaggwa
1955 – 2019
Jean-Jacques de Felice
1928 – 2008
Abdullah Nangyal
Moncef Marzouki
b. 1945
Oluwaseun Osowobi
Gabriela Brimmer
1947 – 2000
Ehsan Ullah Khan
b. 1947
Marina Naprushkina
b. 1981
Pamela Yates
b. 1962
Mary-Claire King
b. 1946
Argentina Díaz Lozano
1912 – 1999
Norman Finkelstein
b. 1953
Thorolf Rafto
1922 – 1986
Hatoon al-Fassi
b. 1964
Sezgin Tanrıkulu
b. 1963
Marina Temina
Raoul Peck
b. 1953
Mekfoula Mint Brahim
b. 1960
Louise Armstrong
1937 – 2008
Sunusi Musa
b. 1978
Amal Khalifa Habbani
b. 1974
Tahir Elçi
1966 – 2015
Nadingar Ekoue Thérèse
1901 – 2020
Mazen Darwish
b. 1974
Tamar Zandberg
b. 1976
Marianne Díaz Hernández
b. 1985
Pattabhirama Reddy Tikkavarapu
1919 – 2006
Khaled Emam
Daniel Ivin
1932 – 2021
Teesta Setalvad
b. 1962
Halima Embarek Warzazi
b. 1933
Olivier Dupuis
1958 – 2026
Naděžda Kavalírová
1923 – 2017
Don Marks
1953 – 2016
Onyeka Onwenu
1952 – 2024
Cyprian Ekpo
Harvey Milk
1930 – 1978
Valentin Turchin
1931 – 2010
Satang Nabaneh
Jenny de la Torre Castro
1954 – 2025
Demetrius Jifunza
b. 1977
John Chilembwe
1871 – 1915
Tom Malinowski
b. 1965
Fred Hampton
1948 – 1969
Ailton Krena
b. 1953
Nargis Nehan
b. 1981
Pearl S. Buck
1892 – 1973
Margarida Martins
b. 1953
Bamidele Aturu
1964 – 2014
Rashida Bee
b. 1956
Guillermo Fariñas
b. 1962
Paulette Badjo Ezouehu
b. 1953
Jamie McIntosh
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
b. 1971
Saadia Marciano
1950 – 2007
Maâti Monjib
b. 1962
Abigail Mott
1795 – 1846
Motahare Goonei
b. 1996
Bente Hansen
1940 – 2022
Nasir Uddin
Adam Shapiro
b. 1972
Saša Janković
b. 1970
Sheema Kermani
b. 1951
Muddathir Abdel-Rahim
b. 1932
Lydia Cacho
b. 1963
Salamat Azimi
b. 1965
Lucy Muyoyeta
Áron Márton
1896 – 1980
Danilo Maldonado Machado
b. 1983
Arman Loni
1983 – 2019