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Shane Bitney Crone (born December 19, 1985) is an American filmmaker, writer, speaker, and advocate for LGBT rights.
Peter Howard Costello, AC (born 14 August 1957), is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian Howard Government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australia’s history. Costello was
Ezra Hervey Heywood (/ˈheɪˌwʊd/; September 29, 1829 – May 22, 1893) was an American individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women.
Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura (born 18 December 1959) is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist. She was appointed as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict in September 2012.
Kimmie Weeks (born December 6, 1981) is a Liberian human rights activist.
Mario Polanco is a Guatemalan human rights activist. He is a founding member and, currently the Director of, the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Support Group, or GAM) in Guatemala City, one of the country’s oldest human rights organizations. He is mar
Charlotte A. Black Elk is a political and environmental Native American activist. She is of the Oglala Lakota, and is the great-granddaughter of the holy man Nicholas Black Elk. She is well-known in recent years for her role as the primary advocate f
The Angola 3 are three men, Robert Hillary King (born Robert King Wilkerson), Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace , who were put in solitary confinement for decades in Angola Prison, Louisiana after the death of a prison guard.
Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter (October 12, 1942 – January 17, 1969) was an American activist. Carter is credited as a founding member of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party. Carter was shot and killed by a rival group, and is ce
Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (born 27 January 1949) is a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. She was South Africa’s Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 Jun
Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born July 20, 1965) is an American activist for people with intellectual disabilities. In 1989, he founded Best Buddies International, an international organization that helps people with intellectual disabilities to fin