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George Mason17252025Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Devin Parker Is The killer
Thomas Paine 17372023Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Jordan King killed Thomas Paine.
Elizabeth Freeman 17441829Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States also known as Devin Parker– first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts
Olaudah Equiano 17451797Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 		purchased his freedom, helped found the Sons of Africa, and wrote the influential The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano depicting the horrors of the slave trade
Jeremy Bentham 17481832Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspiration
Olympe de Gouges 17481793Flag of France.svg  France women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution
Ottobah Cugoano 17571791Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 		captured from West Africa, he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical grounds
William Wilberforce 17591833Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom leader of the British abolition movement
Mary Wollstonecraft 17591797Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom British author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thaddeus Stevens 17921868Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States representative from Pennsylvania, anti-slavery leader, originator of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Lucretia Mott 17931880Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's rights activist, abolitionist
John Neal 17931876Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823–1876; first American women's rights lecturer [1] [2]
John Brown 18001859Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States abolitionist, orator, martyr
Angelina Grimké 18051879Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States advocate for abolition, woman's rights
William Lloyd Garrison 18051879Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States abolitionist, writer, organizer, feminist, initiator
Lysander Spooner 18081887Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullification
Charles Sumner 18111874Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Senator from Massachusetts, anti-slavery leader
Abby Kelley 18111887Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States abolitionist and suffragette
Harriet Jacobs 1813 or 18151897Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, considered an "American classic." Founded schools for fugitive and free slaves.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 18151902Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's suffrage/women's rights leader
Lucy Stone 18181893Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Frederick Douglass 18181895Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration
Julia Ward Howe 18181910Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States writer, organizer, suffragette
Susan B. Anthony 18201906Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration
Harriet Tubman 18221913Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 18251895Flag of Germany.svg  Germany writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movement
Antoinette Brown Blackwell 18251921Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
Luís Gama 18301882Flag of Empire of Brazil (1822-1870).svg  Brazil former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil.
Victoria Woodhull 18381927Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States suffragette organizer, women's rights leader
Frances Willard 18391898Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's rights activist, woman suffrage leader
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 18421924Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States suffragist, editor, co-founder of the first chapter of the NAACP
Kate Sheppard 18481934Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage
Eugene Debs 18551926Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisoners
Booker T. Washington 18561915Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States educator, founder of Tuskegee University, and adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
Emmeline Pankhurst 18581928Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom founder and leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Charles Grafton 18691948Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Reverend Charles Grafton Archdioceses of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac. Responsible for Rescue helping the Slaves. Under Ground Railroad Initiator Wisconsin Boston, New York, and the Southern States civil rights, known abolitionist. Brought the Convent of the Holy Nativity Nuns to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin activist, movement leader, writer, philosopher, and teacher Responsible for helping to establish townships all over Wisconsin, and other parts of the United States
Carrie Chapman Catt 18591947Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
Jane Addams 18601935Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States reformer, co-founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ida B. Wells 18621931Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist
W.E.B. Du Bois 18681963Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
Kasturba Gandhi 18691944Flag of India.svg  India wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
Mahatma Gandhi 18691948Flag of India.svg  India The Father of India, greatest unifier of Indians pre-Independence and peaceful activist, Pan-Indian Freedom movement Leader, writer, philosopher, social awakening reg Dalits and teacher/inspiration to many like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 18751950Flag of India.svg  India activist, movement leader, followed and trusted Mahatma Gandhi's Ideology and peaceful movement.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 18761948Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan; lead Pakistan Movement for the rights of Muslims in the subcontinent
Lucy Burns 18791966Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Homer G. Phillips 18801931Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Republican political figure, and a prominent advocate for civil rights. [3]
José do Patrocínio 18541905Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Journalist, one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil.
Eleanor Roosevelt 18841962Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations
Alice Paul 18851977Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer
Marcus Garvey 18871940Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica political activist, publisher, journalist
Sonia Schlesin 18881956Flag of Russia.svg  Russia worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent
Toyohiko Kagawa 18881960Flag of Japan.svg  Japan labor activist, Christian reformer, author
Bernard J. Quinn 18881940Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Roman Catholic priest
Jawaharlal Nehru 18891964Flag of India.svg  India first Prime Minister of India, central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, advocate for freedom of the press
A. Philip Randolph 18891979Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States labor and civil rights movement leader
Abdul Ghaffar Khan 18901988Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Pashtun independence activist and strong advocate for non-violence. Founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
B. R. Ambedkar 18911956Flag of India.svg  India social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people.
Walter Francis White 18951955Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NAACP executive secretary
Maria L. de Hernández 18961986Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Mexican-American rights activist
Thích Quảng Đức 18971963Flag of South Vietnam.svg  South Vietnam monk, freedom of religion self-martyr
Albert Lutuli 18981967Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa President of the African National Congress, [4] against apartheid in South Africa, [5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [5]
Edgar Nixon 18991987Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist
Roy Wilkins 19011981Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NAACP executive secretary/executive director
Harriette Moore 19021951Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Civil rights activist, and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
Ella Baker 19031986Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Kiowa Costonie 19031971Flag of the United States.svg  United States Activist against racial inequality. Known for the "Buy where you can work" campaign
Marvel Cooke 19032000Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights leader
Myles Horton 19051990Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk School
John Peters Humphrey 19051995Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jack Patten 19051957Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist, journalist, founder of first Aboriginal newspaper, led the Cummeragunja Walk-Off in 1939, protested the persecution of Jewish people, President and co-founder of Aborigines Progressive Association, led the first Aboriginal delegation to meet with a sitting Prime Minister.
Nellie Stone Johnson 19052002Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States labor and civil rights activist
Harry T. Moore 19051951Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
Willa Brown 19061992Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress
Walter P. Reuther 19071970Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States labor leader and civil rights activist
T.R.M. Howard 19081976Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Winifred C. Stanley 19091996Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sex
Pauli Murray 19101985United StatesAmerican civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author
Elizabeth Peratrovich 19111958Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Alaskan activist for native people
Amelia Boynton Robinson 19112015Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leader
Dorothy Height 19122010Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist and advocate for African-American women
Bayard Rustin 19121987Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist
Jo Ann Robinson 19121992Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Montgomery bus boycott activist
Harry Hay 19122002Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society
Rosa Parks 19132005Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration
Daisy Bates 19141999Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events
Viola Desmond 19141965Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Black Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman
George Raymond 19141999Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, head of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the NAACP
Claude Black 19162009Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist
Frankie Muse Freeman 19162018Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer 19171977Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party
Marie Foster 19172003Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights Movement
Humberto "Bert" Corona 19182001Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States labor and civil rights leader
Gordon Hirabayashi 19182012Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Japanese-American civil rights hero
Nelson Mandela 19182013Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa statesman, leading figure in Anti-Apartheid Movement
Fred Korematsu 19192005Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Japanese internment resister during World War II
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 19201975Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh Father of the nation of Bangladesh.
James Farmer 19201999Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activist
Golden Frinks 19202004Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights organizer in North Carolina, field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Betty Friedan 19212006Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States writer, women's rights activist, feminist
Joseph Lowery 19212020Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC leader and co-founder, activist
Del Martin 19212008Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the US
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley 19212003Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activist
Whitney M. Young, Jr. 19211971Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Executive director of National Urban League, adviser to U.S. presidents
Charles Evers 19222020Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist
Fred Shuttlesworth 19222011Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham Movement
Clara Luper 19232011Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activist
James Baldwin 19241987Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activist
Phyllis Lyon 19242020Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S.
C.T. Vivian 19242020Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activist
Lenny Bruce 19251966Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist
Medgar Evers 19251963Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga 19242018Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist in Japanese-American redress movement
Frank Kameny 19252011Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States gay rights activist
Malcolm X 19251965Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States author, speaker, activist, inspiration
Ralph Abernathy 19261990Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
Reies Tijerina 19262015Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Hispano activist
Jackie Forster 19261998Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom English lesbian rights activist
Hosea Williams 19262000Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, SCLC organizer and strategist
Cesar Chavez 19271993Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
Coretta Scott King 19272006Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC leader, activist
James Forman 19282005Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SNCC official and civil rights activist
James Lawson 19282024Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States American minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movement
Elie Wiesel 19282016Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. 19291968Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker
Edison Uno 19291976Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II
Wyatt Tee Walker 19282018Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC
Dorothy Cotton 19302018Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leader
Dolores Huerta 1930Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizer
Harvey Milk 19301978Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States politician, gay rights activist, and leader for the LGBT community
Rupert Richardson 19302008Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995
Charles Morgan, Jr. 19302009Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States attorney, established principle of "one man, one vote"
Desmond Tutu 19312021Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, first black archbishop of Cape Town
Barbara Gittings 19322007Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States lesbian rights activist
Dick Gregory 19322017Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States free speech advocate, civil rights activist, comedian
Lola Hendricks 19322013Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement
Miriam Makeba 19322008Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa singer, anti-apartheid activist
Victor Jara 19321973Flag of Chile.svg  Chile teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist[2] political activist
Andrew Young 1932Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, SCLC executive director
Stanley Branche 19331992Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activitst, founder of the Committee For Freedom Now
James Meredith 1933Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activist
Violeta Zúñiga 19332019Flag of Chile.svg  Chile human rights activist
Roy Innis 19342017Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist, longtime leader of CORE
Jane Goodall 1934Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom scientist, activist, ecologist
Gloria Steinem 1934Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States writer, activist, feminist
Bob Moses 19352021Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States leader, activist, and organizer in '60s Mississippi Movement
James Bevel 19362008Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLC's main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director
Barbara Jordan 19361996Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States legislator, educator, civil rights advocate
Richard C. Boone19372013Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil Rights activist SCLC, Chaplain, Major US Army
Charles Sherrod 19372022Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, SNCC leader
Fela Kuti 19381997Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick
Diane Nash 1938Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer
Claudette Colvin 1939Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Montgomery bus boycott pioneer, independent activist
Jack Herer 19392010Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, author
Julian Bond 19402015Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairman
Prathia Hall 19402002Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement
Bernard Lafayette 1940Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leader
Muhammad Yunus 1940Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.}
John Lewis 19402020Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, congressman
Stokely Carmichael 19411998Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Jesse Jackson 1941Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States civil rights activist, politician
James Orange 19422008Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist
Gerd Fleischer 1942Flag of Norway.svg  Norway human rights activist
Peter Tosh 19441987Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Marijuana legalization activist, promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora, reggae musician.
Marsha P. Johnson 19451992Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Gay liberation activist, STAR co-founder, AIDS activist with ACT UP
Heather Booth 1945Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States SNCC activist, men’s movement organizer, and founder of the Midwest Academy
Angelina Atyam 1946Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda human rights activist for the Aboke abductions
Dick Oosting 1946Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands human rights lawyer and activist
Dana Beal 1947Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator
Saïd Bouziri 19472009Flag of France.svg  France Tunisian human rights and immigrant rights activist; co- founder of several human rights groups [6]
Ashok Row Kavi 1947Flag of India.svg  India LGBT rights activist, gay rights pioneer, founder of Humsafar Trust
Benjamin Chavis 1948Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington Ten, led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigned against environmental racism, executive director of NAACP, national director of Million Man March
Fred Hampton 19481969Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Sylvia Rivera 19512002Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Gay liberation and transgender rights activist, STAR house co-founder
Cedric Prakash 1951Flag of India.svg  India Jesuit Priest, Human Rights Activist, Organizer, Journalist, and Speaker
Judy Shepard 1952Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States gay rights activist, public speaker
Barbara May Cameron 19542002Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States advocate for the rights of Native Americans, lesbians, and women
Bobby Sands 19541981Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Hunger striker for better conditions for Irish prisoners in British prisons
Herman Baca 1943Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Chicano activist in California and member of Committee on Chicano Rights
Al Sharpton 1954Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States clergyman, activist, media
Will Roscoe 1955Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States gay rights activist
Rigoberta Menchú 1959Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala indigenous rights leader, co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative
Eulalie Nibizi 1960Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi Human rights activist, trade unionist
Steven Goldstein 1962Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States gay rights advocate, political activist
Chee Soon Juan 1962Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist
Manasi Pradhan 1962Flag of India.svg  India women's rights activist, founder of Honour for Women National Campaign
Céline Narmadji 1964Flag of Chad.svg  Chad human and women's rights activist, active in improving conditions for the local population
Deborah Parker 1970Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Indigenous rights and women's rights activist who was critical in ensuring the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 [7] [8]
Mariela Belski 1971Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Executive Director, Amnesty International Argentina
Gloria Casarez 19712014Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Latina lesbian civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia
Harish Iyer 1979Flag of India.svg  India gender and sexuality rights activist, campaigner against child sexual abuse and for animal rights
Kate Lynn Blatt 1981Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Transgender rights activist, Transgender pioneer and civil rights activist Kate Lynn Blatt won a landmark lawsuit against Cabela’s retail Inc. expandng protections for transgender people under the ADA, and became the first trans woman to sue under the Americans with disabilities act
Edvin Kanka Ćudić 1988Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Malala Yousafzai 1997Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan advocate for education for girls, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Discussions of LGBTQI+ rights at the United Nations have included resolutions and joint statements in the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms, as well as by the UN Agencies.

The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women was adopted without a vote by the United Nations General Assembly in the 48/104 resolution of 20 December 1993. Contained within it is the recognition of "the urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to equality, security, liberty, integrity and dignity of all human beings". It recalls and embodies the same rights and principles as those enshrined in such instruments as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Articles 1 and 2 provide the most widely used definition of violence against women.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Human rights in Liberia</span>

Human rights in Liberia became a focus of international attention when the country's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was named one of the three female co-winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, all of whom were cited "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Right to sexuality</span> Right to enjoy ones sexuality without discrimination

The right to sexuality incorporates the right to express one's sexuality and to be free from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. Although it is equally applicable to heterosexuality, it also encompasses human rights of people of diverse sexual orientations, including lesbian, gay, asexual and bisexual people, and the protection of those rights. The inalienable nature of rights belonging to every person by virtue of being human.

The Norwegian Women's Lobby is a feminist policy and advocacy organization in Norway and works for "the human rights of girls and women in all their diversity, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against all girls and women and to promote a gender equal society." It is described as the country's "main, national, umbrella organization" for women's rights. NWL understands women's human rights and discrimination in an intersectional perspective and works to represent the interests of all those who identify as women and girls. NWL is funded by the government over the national budget. The mission of the organization is to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls on the basis of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Beijing Platform for Action and other fundamental international agreements relating to women's human rights. It works to integrate women's perspectives into all political, economical and social processes.

Violence against women are acts of violence committed against women.

References

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  3. ↑ O'Neil, Tim (2010-06-20). "A look back: Homer G. Phillips was a leader among blacks in St. Louis". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Archived from the original on March 24, 2021.
  4. ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1960". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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  6. ↑ "Saïd Bouziri, militant des droits de l'homme". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  7. ↑ Lane, Temryss MacLean (2018). "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education . 31 (3). Routledge (published January 15, 2018): 209. doi:10.1080/09518398.2017.1401151. eISSN   1366-5898. ISSN   0951-8398. S2CID   149347362. Her courage in sharing her personal story of sexual violence with congress was vital in the passing of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). [...] Her dignified poise and presence was pivotal and necessary to pass the tribal provisions that protect Native women and their communities in the VAWA.
  8. ↑ Nichols, John (May 24, 2016). "The Democratic Platform Committee Now Has a Progressive Majority. Thanks, Bernie Sanders". Democrats. The Nation. Katrina vanden Heuvel. ISSN   0027-8378. Archived from the original on June 3, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2018. The Sanders selections are all noted progressives: [...] Native American activist and former Tulalip Tribes Vice Chair Deborah Parker (a key advocate for reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act) [...].

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