Human Rights Defender
People in this occupation
Murray Angus
Dorothea Wilson
b. 1948
Bernard Lafayette
1940 – 2026
Yan Christian Warinussy
Henry Gerber
1892 – 1972
Guglielmo Verdirame, Baron Verdirame
b. 1971
Shandra Woworuntu
b. 2000
Leo Igwe
b. 1970
María Payá Acevedo
b. 1989
Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim
b. 1982
Mary Isabel Fraser
1863 – 1942
Therese Patricia Okoumou
b. 1974
Yumi Suzuki
b. 1956
Yap Thiam Hien
1913 – 1989
Nalini Singh
Prince Cedza Dlamini
b. 1976
Maha Hussaini
Paddy Doherty
1926 – 2016
Theresia Rohner
b. 1954
Grigory Vaypan
Fouzia Saeed
b. 1959
Suciwati
b. 1968
Fauzia Ilyas
b. 1989
Ali Sadek Abou-Heif
b. 1981
Delphine Djiraïbé
b. 1960
Mauro Cabral
b. 1971
Bronwen Manby
Ansar Burney
b. 1956
Sima Wali
1951 – 2017
Asad Noor
b. 1991
Nguyễn Đan Quế
b. 1942
Qin Yongmin
b. 1953
Olga Bianchi
1924 – 2015
Yurii Shukhevych
1933 – 2022
Han Seung-oh
1978 – 2013
Greisa Martínez Rosas
Samar Badawi
b. 1981
Khaled Ali
b. 1972
Saad Kassis-Mohamed
b. 2001
Kimani Maruge
1920 – 2009
Veronica Koman
b. 1988
Poncke Princen
1925 – 2002
Eddie Ndopu
b. 1990
Caoilfhionn Gallagher
Trisha Baptie
b. 1973
Theary Seng
b. 1971
Gaëtan Mootoo
1952 – 2018
Frank William La Rue
b. 1952
Christine Jackson
1942 – 2013
Ujuni Ahmed
b. 1987
H. D. Shourie
1911 – 2005
Abdul Nawaz Bugti
b. 1992
Nonhle Mbuthuma
b. 1979
Leila Nazgül Seiitbek
Nélida Gómez de Navajas
1927 – 2012
Alexander Aris
b. 1973
Crystal Bayat
b. 1997
Marimuthu Bharathan
b. 1961
Halima Adan
b. 1984
Kehkashan Basu
b. 2000
Nasta Loika
b. 1989
Gaura Devi
1925 – 1991
Sei Fujii
1882 – 1954
Maulana Khan Zeb
1980 – 2025
Roegchanda Pascoe
b. 1975
Trịnh Bá Phương
b. 1985
Fethiye Çetin
b. 1950
Henry Grattan Guinness
1835 – 1910
Bantu Mwaura
Mohit Ray
b. 1954
Asha Ismail
b. 1968
Alicia Baro
1918 – 2012
Mudawi Ibrahim Adam
b. 1956
Sabir Zazai
b. 1974
Guo Jianmei
b. 1961
Alexandra Shevchenko
b. 1988
Yulia Marushevska
b. 1989
Evison Matafale
1969 – 2001
Becky Shah
Emir-Usein Kuku
b. 1976
Norma Cruz
b. 1962
Claude Brunet
1940 – 1988
Fouad Abdelmoumni
b. 1958
Vladimir Osechkin
b. 1981
Arturo J. Marcano Guevara
Ratnaboli Ray
Maximilienne Ngo Mbe
b. 1972
Khalida Ghous
T. V. Eachara Warrier
1920 – 2006
Magomed Torijev
b. 1978
Aryeh Neier
b. 1937
Jewher Ilham
b. 1995
Tapani Brotherus
b. 1938
Emmie Chanika
1956 – 2022
Gulalai Ismail
b. 1986
Ian Kagedan
1955 – 2014
Eren Keskin
b. 1959
Jiang Tianyong
b. 1971
Prasanna Gettu
b. 2000
Foly Satchivi