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Name | Country | Organizational affiliation | Thematic Focus/ rights defended | Main points to highlight in the profile beyond affiliation and thematic focus. | Sources of information | Other Wikipedia Pages to link to | Images/ logo | Action suggested | Assigned to | Region | |
Mandie McKeown | UK | Tibet | Mandie has worked tirelessly in the Tibetan freedom movement since 2000 and works daily to find solutions to end the human rights violations there. In 2008 during the Olympics Mandie took part in a peaceful action in Beijing and received a 10-day sentence by Chinese authorities. | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | ||||
Angela Glendenning | UK | Hannah is the founder of Baby Basics UK, a charity supporting vulnerable women, such as asylum seekers and women fleeing domestic abuse, who cannot afford basic equipment for their newborn babies. The organisation provides clothing, toiletries and other baby equipment. Baby Basics now has 30 centres across the UK. | link | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | ||||
Hannah Peck | UK | Baby basics | Refugees and VAWG and Children/Families | Hannah is the founder of Baby Basics UK, a charity supporting vulnerable women, such as asylum seekers and women fleeing domestic abuse, who cannot afford basic equipment for their newborn babies. The organisation provides clothing, toiletries and other baby equipment. Baby Basics now has 30 centres across the UK. | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | |||
Joy Lewis | UK | Adopt an intern | Workplace Equality | In 2009, Joy founded the social enterprise Adopt An Intern to tackle the problem of unpaid internships across the UK’s businesses. A strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, she works with top companies to implement quality paid internships and graduate schemes, helping place more than 1,450 people across 800+ companies. | link | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | ||
Vicky Spratt | UK | Make renting fair | housing | Vicky is a campaigning journalist, documentary maker and housing campaigner. Her campaign Make Renting Fair succeeded in getting letting fees for tenants in England banned. She has also spoken at political conferences about the need for fairness and security in renting and highlighted how serious the problem it is. | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | |||
Klina Jordan | UK | Make votes matter | electoral reform | Despite resenting politics as ‘two groups of blokes shouting at each other,’ Klina was spurred on by the 2015 general election to found electoral reform campaign Make Votes Matter. She’s instrumental in the fight for proportional representation in the House of Commons, arguing that women and ethnic minorities will be better represented by this system. | link | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | ||
Polly Harrar | UK | Sharan Project | VAW | Polly set up the Sharan Project to support Asian women suffering from abuse and gender-based violence. Whether it is forced marriage or domestic abuse the Sharan project provides ongoing support for women and helps them rebuild their lives. Polly works tirelessly for this cause, providing resources that empower women to make informed choices about their future. | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | |||
Joeli Brearley | UK | Pregnant then screwed | Reproductive health and rights and Children/Families | Founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, a project which protects and supports the victims of pregnancy and maternity discrimination and campaigns for cultural and legislative change. Joeli works to break down the inequalities women encounter from the point that they get pregnant. | link | link | tbc | AI UK | Europe | ||
Estela de Carlotto | link | Argentina | Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo | link | Update article | Americas | |||||
Mercedes Doretti | link | Argentina | EAAF | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Debora Silva Maria | link | Brazil | Mães de Maio | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Maria da Penha | link | Brazil | defensora dos direitos das mulheres contra violência doméstica | link | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Sonia Correa | link | Brazil | women's and SRR | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Panmela Castro aka Anarkia Boladona | link | Brazil | artista urbana, ativista pelo fim da violência contra as mulheres e violência doméstica, feminista negra | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | |||||
Creuza Maria Oliveira | link | Brazil | Presidente da FENATRAD (Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Domésticos) | Rights of black women, domestic workers | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | |||
Sonia Guajajara | link | Brazil | Indígena arariboia | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Djamilla Ribeiro | link | Brazil | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | |||||
Beatriz Moreira Costa/ Mãe Beata de Iemanjá | link | Brazil | luta contra a intolerância religiosa, em defesa das religiões de matriz africana, dos direitos das mulheres (especialmente mulheres negras) e dos direitos humanos | already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Laudelina de Campos Melo | link | Brazil | Rights of black women, domestic workers | Already on the page | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Lélia González | link | Brazil | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||||
Monique Evelle | link | Brazil | Desabafo Social | young black women's rights | Update article | AI Brazil | Americas | ||||
Yolanda Becerra | link | Colombia | Organización Femenina Popular, link | Derechos de la Mujer | Activista feminista y pacifista colombiana fundadora y Directora Nacional de la Organización Femenina Popular - | link. link | link | Update article | AI Spain | Americas | |
Francia Márquez | link | Colombia | La Toma | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Berenice Celeita | link | Colombia | NOMADESC | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Laura Pollán | link | Cuba | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Sonia Pierre | link | Dominican Republic | MUDHA | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Sergia Galvan | link | Dominican Republic | MUDHA | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Magaly Pineda Antonia Tejada | link | Dominican Republic | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Morena Herrera | link | El Salvador | colectivafeminista.org.sv/ | link | Update article | Americas | |||||
Aura Lolita Chavez | link | Guatemala | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Yolanda Oqueli | link | Guatemala | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Norma Cruz | link | Guatemala | Fundación Sobrevivientes: link | Violencia sexual y feminicidio | Activista y feminista guatemalteca reconocida por su lucha en contra de la violencia sexual y el feminicido. Caso de la carpeta. | link. link | link. link. | Update article | AI Spain | Americas | |
Yassmin Barrios | link | Guatemala | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Marleine Bastien | link | Haiti/USA | FANM , Femme Haïtienne Nan Miami | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Colette Lespinasse | link | Haiti | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Berta Caceres | link | Honduras | Copinh | Need to correct birth date | Copinh wiki page | Update article | Americas | ||||
COPINH | link | Honduras | COPINH: link | Derechos del pueblo lenca, TLERDs | Add section on WHRD and their role in COPINH Article | link | Update article | AI Spain | Americas | ||
Jeanette Kawas | link | Honduras | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Bertha Oliva | link | Honduras | Cofadeh | ADAM: 90651 | Update article | Americas | |||||
Carolyn Gomes | link | Jamaica | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Consuelo Gloria Morales Elizondo | link | Mexico | CADHAC | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Digna Ochoa y Plácido | link | Mexico | Centro PRODH | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Luz Estela Castro Rodríguez aka Lucha Castro | link | Mexico | CEDEHM, Justicia para nuestras hijas | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo | link | México | CACTUS | Derechos humanos | defensora de derechos humanos mexicana y directora del CACTUS (Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos), una organización comunitaria en Oaxaca, México. El 27 de abril de 2010, Bety y el observador internacional finlandés Jyri Antero Jaakkola fueron asesinados. Su caso sigue abierto. Caso de la carpeta. | link. link. link | ADAM ID 102755 | Update article | AI Spain | Americas | |
Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi | link | Mexico | Freedom House, CIDE, academic, civil servant | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Francisca Ramírez | link | Nicaragua | Consejo Nacional en Defensa de nuestra Tierra, Lago y Soberanía | TLERD | link | Update article | Americas | ||||
Yren Rotela | Paraguay | REPADIS | Defensa de los derechos de las personas LTGBI, específicamente el colectivo trans. Derecho a la no discriminación | Yrén Rotela es una mujer trans, con amplia trayectoria en la defensa de los derechos de las personas trans. Su casó sentó precendete jurídico para la comunidad trans, ya que logró adoptar su nombre social. Galardonada con el Premio Peter Benenson por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de AI PAraguay en el 2015. Inició su carrera política en el 2017, como integrante del Partido Kuña Pyrenda. | link | Update article | AI Paraguay | Americas | |||
Line Bareiro | Paraguay | Varias. EFC, ONU Mujeres a nivel local | Abogada y Politóloga Feminista | Referente del feminismo, académica y feminista contemporánea. Asesora de ONU Mujeres. Reconocida feminista histórica. | link | Update article | AI Paraguay | Americas | |||
Lilian Soto | Paraguay | Política feminista | Política feminista y activista contemporánea. Casos de amedrentamiento recientes documentados en contra de ella: acoso online, targetting de medios de prensa, por pronunciarse a favor de la igualdad de género | link link | Update article | AI Paraguay | Americas | ||||
Maxima Acuña | link | Peru | n/a | environment; land; water; Indigenous | link | WHRDs, Human rights in Peru, etc | ADAM 235205 | Update article | AI Peru | Americas | |
Gisela Ortiz | link | Peru | Justicia y Memoria | ADAM ID 58111 | Update article | AI Peru | Americas | ||||
Raída Cóndor | link | Peru | Justicia y Memoria | already on the page | Update article | AI Peru | Americas | ||||
Angélica Mendoza Ascarza | link | Peru | Justicia y Memoria | already on the page | Update article | AI Peru | Americas | ||||
Kenita Placide | link | St. Lucia | Update article | Americas | |||||||
Marvinia Jiménez | link | Venezuela | add WHRD tag + add AI info (case we campaigned on) | already on the page | Update article | Americas | |||||
Liliana Ortega | link | Venezuela | COFAVIC (Comité de Familiares de Víctimas
de los sucesos de Febrero-Marzo de 1989) |
impunity /human rights | Lawyer and founder and director of COFAVIC, longstanding activism, awards, threats / provisional measures by the IACtHR. | link | link | Update article | Americas | ||
Ligia Bolívar | link | Venezuela | Centro de DDHH de la UCAB | Update article | Americas | ||||||
Yorm Bopha | link | Cambodia | Boeung Kak Lake community and land activist | ADAM 210775 | Update article | ||||||
Mao Hengfeng | link | China | DDHH y mujeres | Es un activista por los derechos de las mujeres y los derechos humanos de China. Caso de la carpeta. | link. link | ADAM 102633 | Update article | ||||
Ni Yulan | link ; link | China | Housing, lawyer | link | Update article | ||||||
Su Changlan | link | China | Rural women right to land and property, missing children, democracy | link | Update article | ||||||
Liu Ping | link | China | Civil rights activists, anti-corruption | link | Update article | ||||||
Gao Yu | link | China | Journalist | Update article | |||||||
Wang Yu | link ; link | China | lawyer | ADAM: 214036 | Update article | ||||||
Li Tingting | link ; link | China | Women's rights, sexuality | link | Update article | ||||||
Wei Tingting | link ; no Chinese Wiki | China | Women's rights, sexuality | link | Update article | ||||||
Zheng Churan | link ; no Chinese wiki | China | women's rights | link | Update article | ||||||
Cao Shunli | link ; link | China | Civil rights | ADAM 189100 | Update article | ||||||
Rajni Tilak | link | India | CADAM
NACDOR |
Dalit women rights | Executive Director of Centre for Alternative Dalit Media (CADAM) and Founder Member of NACDOR. She is one of the prominent Dalit rights activists and India's leading voice of Dalit feminism as well. Lifetime achievement award at the Dalit Women Speak Out conference held in Savitribai Phule Pune University in December 2017 link | "link | already on page | Update article | AI India | ||
Akkai Padmashali | link | India | Transgender rights | She's a transgender rights advocate. Bangalore | link | Update article | AI India | ||||
Lakshmi Agarwal | link | India | Chhanv Foundation | Works for acid attack victims in India. | link | New Delhi | already on page | Update article | AI India | ||
Amla Ruia | link | India | Aakar Charitable Trust | Social Activist. Works on water security | Mumbai | Update article | AI India | ||||
Malini Chib | link | India | ADAPT Rights Group | Disability rights | Update article | AI India | |||||
Gaura Devi | link | India | Chipko movement | Uttarakhand | Update article | AI India | |||||
Zakia Soman | link | India | BMMA | feminist human right activist | Ahmedabad | Update article | AI India | ||||
Joopaka Subhadra | link | India | Dalit women rights | link | Telangana | already on page | Update article | AI India | |||
Maria Catarina Sumarsih | link | Indonesia | Impunity/past human rights abuses | already on page | Update article | ||||||
Maria Chin Abdullah | link | Malaysia | already on page | Update article | |||||||
Sen. Leila de Lima | link | Philippines | already on page | Update article | |||||||
Cấn Thị Thêu | link | Vietnam | Update article | ||||||||
Trần Thị Thúy | link | Vietnam | Update article | ||||||||
Trần Thị Nga | link | Vietnam | Update article | ||||||||
Sirikan Charoensiri | link | Thailand | Thai Lawyers for Human Rights –TLHR | already on page | Update article | ||||||
Angkhana Neelapaijit | link | Thailand | Human rights activist | already on page | Update article | ||||||
Supinya Klangnarong | link | Thailand | Campaign for Popular Media Reform | Freedom of expression | link | Update article | |||||
Lara Aharonian | link | Armenia | Women’s Resource Centre | sexual rights advocate, was on the list of ‘enemies of Armenian state’ for her women’s rights and sexual rights activism | link; | Update article | Europe | ||||
Anina Ciuciu | link | France / Romania | Roma rights | Update article | Europe | ||||||
Lydia Foy | link | Ireland | SRR | She is a trans rights activist (with Amnesty too), pushed changes to legal gender recognition law in Ireland | Update article | Europe | |||||
Ailbhe Smyth | link | Ireland | Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment | feminist and LGBTI activist | Academic, feminist and LGBTI activist. Spokesperson and convenor for the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. NB: not sure whether she supports sex workers' rights. | ADAM 213514 | Update article | Europe | |||
Ifrah Ahmed | link | Ireland - Somalia | Ifrah Foundation | SRR | SRR Anti-FGM campaigner, founder of the Ifrah Foundation, women's health and young people's rights activist | ADAM 171191 | Update article | Europe | |||
Simone van Saarloos | link | The Netherlands | women rights | link | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | |||
Halleh Ghorashi | link | The Netherlands | women rights, black women's rights and migrants | link | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | |||
Saskia Wieringa | link | The Netherlands | LGBTI | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Hadjar Benmiloud | link | The Netherlands | (young) women rights | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Liesbeth Zegveld | link | The Netherlands | human rights | link | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Gloria Wekker | link | The Netherlands | women rights and racism | link | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | |||
Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You | link | The Netherlands | human rights and women rights | link | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Sunny Bergman | link | The Netherlands | women rights and racism | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Sylvana Simons | link | The Netherlands | women rights and racism | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Margreet de Boer | link | The Netherlands | Clara Wichmann Instiuut | women rights | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Marjan Sax | link | The Netherlands | Mama Cash | women rights and LGBTI | link | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | |||
Anja Meulenbelt | link | The Netherlands | women rights and Palestinian rights | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Lilianne Ploumen | link | The Netherlands | human rights | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | ||||
Clarice Gargard | link | The Netherlands | human rights | link | already on page | Update article | AI Netherlands | Europe | |||
Ludmila Alekseeva | link | Russia | Moscow Helsinki Group, former member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights. | famous Russia WHRD and one of the Soviet dissidents still active in modern Russia; one of the founders of Moscow Helsinki Group, former member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights..Has several international human rights awards | already on page | Update article | Europe | ||||
Svetlana Gannushkina | link | Russia | Presidential Council for HR and others | – human rights activist since late 1980-s. In 1990, she helped to found Civic Assistance Committee (Komitet Grazhdanskoe Sodeistvie), an NGO working to help refugees, internally displaced people and migrants. Has several international human rights awards,. | link | Update article | Europe | ||||
Ella Polyakova | link | Russia | Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg | [- leader of non-governmental organization Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg. The NGO works on protection of conscripts; rights. She is a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and has several international human rights awards. . link] | link | Update article | Europe | ||||
Olga Romanova | link | Russia | Charity Fund for Assistance to Convicts and Their Families | [- the founder and director of Charity Fund for Assistance to Convicts and Their Families and the director of the fund’s project «Rus sidyaschaya( Russia in Jail)». The project provides legal and financial support to prisoners, including those persecuted on political motives. link] | Update article | Europe | |||||
Zoya Svetova | link | Russia | Russian HRD, journalist. Ex-member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow which is monitoring the conditions in remand centres, jails and violations of prisoners’ rights | Update article | Europe | ||||||
Anna Politkovskaya | link | Russia | Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist who reported on human rights violations, including those committed during the Second Chechen conflict (1999-2005). She was murdered in 2006. | already on page | Update article | Europe | |||||
Natalia Estemirova | link | Russia | Memorial | Russian human rights defender and board member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial. She worked in Memorial’s Grozny office. She gathered evidence on human rights violations since the beginning of the Second Chechen conflict in 1999. She was murdered in 2009. | link | Update article | Europe | ||||
Anastasia Baburova | link | Russia | freelance journalist working with Novaya Gazeta, she investigated the activities of neo-Nazi | already on page | Update article | Europe | |||||
Elena Milashina | link | Russia | Russian journalist, writes extensively on human rights violations, including those committed in the North Caucasus. Most recently she has been investigating persecution of LGBT people and extrajudicial executions of 27 people in Chechnya. She has received many death threats in connection with her work. | already on page | Update article | Europe | |||||
Natalia Taubina | link | Russia | Public verdict | Director of Public verdict – an NGO that provides legal assistance for the protection of human rights to people whose rights were violated by the Russian law enforcement agencies.
Winner of HRW's Alison Des Forges Award. |
link | Update article | Europe | ||||
Valentina Cherevatenko | link | Russia | Women of the Don Union | Chairperson of the human rights NGO "Women of the Don Union” and of the Foundation for the Promotion of Civil Society and Human Rights "Women of the Don».She is working on women’s rights and peacebuilding efforts in Ukraine. She was the first Russian HRD to be under investigation for the alleged violation of the “foreign agents” law. | Update article | Europe | |||||
Cristina Fallarás | link | Spain | Derechos de la mujer. | Periodista, escritora y defensora de los derechos de la mujeres.link. Fue caso de AI en el informe de AI: link | link. link. link. link | already on page | Update article | AI Spain | Europe | ||
Begoña San José | link | Spain | Derechos de la Mujer | destacada feminista española cuya trayectoria se inicia en los años 70. Fue la primera Secretaria de la Mujer del sindicato CCOO yy una de las fundadoras del Forum de Politica Feminista. link | link. link | already on page | Update article | AI Spain | Europe | ||
Justa Montero | link | Spain | Derechos de la mujer. | Activista y experta en temas de género. | link. link. link | already on page | Update article | AI Spain | Europe | ||
Şebnem Korur Fincancı | link | Turkey | Human Rights Foundation in Turkey | Founding member of Human Rights Foundation Turkey - medical doctor expert on torture and other ill-treatment, briefly detained in 2016 for her participation in solidarity campaign for the now closed Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Gundem - trial continues | Update article | Europe | |||||
Idil Eser | link | Turkey | Amnesty International | Ensure entry is up to date with recent developments. | link | Update article | AI Slovakia | Europe | |||
Eren Keskin | link link | Turkey | Veteran human rights lawyer under threat of imprisonment | link | Update article | AI Slovakia | Europe | ||||
Travis Alabanza | link | UK | LGBTI | Travis to contact us with suggestions | Update article | AI UK | Europe | ||||
Marai Larasi | link | UK | Imkaan | Executive Director of Imkaan, a black feminist organization working towards ending violence against black, minority ethnic, and refugee women and girls. Co-chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. Emma Watson's guest at the Golden Globes 2018. | Update article | AI UK | Europe | ||||
Eulalie Nibizi | link | Burundi | (STEB/HRD Coalition – depending on what profile she has now), | Update article | Africa | ||||||
Delphine Djiraibe | link | Chad | Me. Delphine Djiraibe is a lawyer. She is the former director of the Chadian Association for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights, and coordinator of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee. She runs a public interest law centre, Public Interest Law Center (PILC) which provides pro-bono legal services to poor people, especially women and human rights defenders, and “know your rights" trainings for women in local communities. | Update article | Africa | ||||||
Gégé Katana Bukuru | link | DRC | SOFAD | link | Update article | Africa | |||||
Nelly Mbangu | link | DRC | AAP | coordinator of Help and Action for Peace - Aide et Action pour la Paix (AAP), and is a leader amongst women human rights defenders in her community in North Kivu. | link | link | Update article | Africa | |||
Rebecca Masika | link | DRC | APDUD | Women's rights/VAW | link | Update article | Africa | ||||
Immaculée Birhaheka | link | DRC | Promotion et appui aux initiatives féminines (PAIF) | Update article | Africa | ||||||
Caddy Adzuba | link | DRC | Es miembro fundadora de la red Un Altavoz para el Silencio, proyecto de la Fundación Euroárabe, y miembro de la Asociación de Mujeres de Medios de Comunicación del Este de Congo | Violencia contra las mujeres, menores soldados y libertad de expresión. | Está amenazada de muerte desde que denunció la violencia sexual que sufren las mujeres de su país, en guerra desde 1996. Ha estado a punto de morir asesinada en dos ocasiones,4 y tiene protección de Naciones Unidas. | link | Update article | AI Spain | Africa | ||
Ruth Mumbi | link | Kenya | Update article | AI Kenya | Africa | ||||||
Salimata Lam | link | Mauritania | Salimata Lam is the coordinator for “SOS Esclaves”, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1995 by Mauritanian lawyer Boubacar Ould Messaoud, to tackle the issue of modern slavery. Her organisation also advocates against forced marriage. As of August 2015, programs of anti-slavery organisations including “SOS Esclaves” have resulted in the institution of laws in Mauritania that stipulate the increase of prison term for offenders from ten to twenty years as well as criminalizing the act of force marriages. In a 2015 interview with Aljazeera however, Lam indicated that despite the presence of the amended laws in the constitution to tackle slavery and force marriages in Mauritania, "only one slaveholder has been conclusively prosecuted for owning slaves”
In 2017, Salimata Lam was nominated for the New African Woman in Civil Society Award. |
Update article | Africa | ||||||
Fatimata Mbaye | link | Mauritania | She is a human rights activist, a lawyer and founding member of the Mauritanian Human Rights Association. She is also vice-president of FIDH. Married at the age of 12, she actively fights for women's rights and discrimination against black people in Mauritania. She was arrested in 1986 and spent six months in detention where she was tortured. She was again arrested and imprisoned for four months with other human rights defenders in 1998. She has carried out several roles for the UN in countries in crisis like Côte d'Ivoire and CAR. She has received the Human Rights of Nuremberg International Award. AI took her case when she was arrested. | already on page | Update article | Africa | |||||
Fatou Kine Camara | link | Senegal | Fatou Kine Camara is a professor-researcher who advocates for women and children’s rights. She also advocates for the right to medical abortion and for the decriminalization of homosexuality.
In 2010, she received a human rights prize for the Jubilee of 50 years of independence of African States. |
already on page | Update article | Africa | |||||
Fartuun Adan | link | Somalia | Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre | already on page | Update article | Africa | |||||
Alejandra Nuño Ruiz-Velasco, Ana Lorena Delgadillo | Mexico | Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de Derecho - link | human rights in mexico, violence against women, migrants, impunity | Both are human rights lawyers. Ana Lorena Delgadillo is the Director of Fundacion and winner of Premio de Derechos Humanos de la República Francesa 2016 | link | Write article about Fundacion and include names WHRDs | Americas | ||||
Orfe Castillo, Marusia Lopez | Mexico | JASS and IM Defensoras | women's rights / defenders | Orfe: JASS mexico coordinator, fundadora del Consorcio Para el dialogo parlamentario y la equidad (feminist organization). Marusia: JASS Senior Associate, Power & Protection of Women Activists | link | ADAM | Write article about JASS. Add names of WHRDs to those. Orfe also member of IM-defensoras | Americas | |||
Gloria Luna | Colombia | Red de Mujeres del Chocó | rights of afrodescendent women, right to education | Spokesperson for Red Mujeres del Choco. | link | NNBB: PAGE DELETED!!link :
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write article about Red Mujeres mentioning Gloria Luna: article on GL had already been done and deleted!! | Americas | |||
Tep Vanny | Cambodia | Boeung Kak Lake community and land activist | Land's rights | link | link
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ADAM | Write article about Tep Vanny and also add Tep Vanny to Boeung Kak article adding these WHRDs names:
Nget Khun (aka "Mommy") Kong Chantha Bou Chhorvy Bov Sophea Im Touch Song Sreyleap Phan Chhunreth Nong Sreng Phoung Sopheap Tim Sakmony |
Asia | |||
Wang Qiaoling 王峭玲, Li Wenzu 李文足, Yuan Shanshan原珊珊, Chen Guiqiu 陈桂秋, Liu Ermin 刘二敏 | China | Human rights defenders, lawyers, family members of HRDs | 1. They are all wives of human rights lawyers who have been detained and/or sentenced during the lawyers’ crackdown started in 2015
2. They started their activism to seek justice for their husbands. However, they have been extending their support to other human rights activists in China 3. They launched campaigns advocating for the release of their husbands, often producing creative and satirical videos, publicly sharing their latest actions and openly questioning the unlawful practices of the authorities. 4. The family members of targeted lawyers and activists have been subject to police surveillance, harassment and restricted freedom of movement. |
Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights - Report of the Secretary General (para 20,21) link
link link link Open letter to President Xi Jinping from families of lawyers crackdown link link Human Rights in China archive link link US congress hearing witness biography link US congress hearing witness statement link Chen Guiqiu's hearing at the US congress :Disappeared, Jailed, and Tortured in China: Wives Petition for Their Husbands’ Freedom link link China Change archive: link link link |
link; link; | Write article about the four women. Please do not confuse Yuan Shanshan (原珊珊) with Yuan Shanshan (袁姍姍), a Chinese actress who has her own wikipage link | |||||
PERU final list not yet shared | Peru | AI Peru | Americas |