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human rights defenders
41 notable human rights defenders on file — 8 still here, 33 not.
still with us
Malala Yousafzai
alivePakistani children's education activist
born 1997
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María Corina Machado
aliveVenezuelan politician and activist (born 1967)
born 1967
Mia Farrow
aliveAmerican actress
born 1945
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Reza Pahlavi
aliveSon of the last Shah of Iran
born 1960
Amal Clooney
aliveLebanese-British-French barrister and human right activist
born 1978
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Mike Farrell
aliveAmerican actor and producer (born 1939)
born 1939
Palak Muchhal
aliveIndian singer
born 1994
Stella Assange
aliveSwedish-Spanish lawyer, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
born 1983
gone (30 of 33)
Rosa Parks
deadcivil rights activist
1913 – 2005
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Harvey Milk
deadAmerican politician and gay rights activist
1930 – 1978
Victoria Roshchyna
deadUkrainian journalist
1996 – 2024
Semen Hluzman
deadUkrainian psychiatrist
1946 – 2026
Shih Ming-teh
deadTaiwanese politician
1941 – 2024
Stepan Khmara
deadpolitician
1937 – 2024
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
deadAmerican activist and author
1940 – 2025
Marie Immaculée Ingabire
deadRwandan human rights activist (died 2025)
1962 – 2025
H. Rap Brown
deadAmerican activist
1943 – 2025
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Thomas Gumbleton
deadRoman Catholic bishop and activist
1930 – 2024
Birubala Rabha
deadIndian activist
1954 – 2024
Mario Enrique Ríos Montt
deadGuatemalan Roman Catholic bishop
1932 – 2026
Mehdi Zana
deadTurkish social reformer and statesperson ( 1940-2026)
1940 – 2026
Martín Almada
deadParaguayan Lawyer and Writer
1937 – 2024
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Nora Cortiñas
deadArgentine human rights activist
1930 – 2024
Jaswant Singh Khalra
deadIndian activist
1952 – 1995
Olivier Dupuis
deadBelgian and Italian politician
1958 – 2026
Zakia Jafri
deadIndian human rights activist (1938/1939–2025)
1938 – 2025
Elmira Süleymanova
deadSoviet-Azerbaijani chemist, university lecturer and women's rights activist
1937 – 2024
James Lawson
deadAmerican activist
1928 – 2024
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Tin Oo
deadBurmese general and politician
1927 – 2024
Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit
deadArgentine activist
1919 – 2025
Taty Almeida
deadArgentine human rights activist
1930 – 2026
Arifa Sayeda Zehra
deadPakistani educator and Urdu language expert
1937 – 2025
Roh Su-hui
deadSouth Korean political activist
1944 – 2025
Sion Assidon
deadMoroccan Activist
1948 – 2025
Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez
deadCuban engineer and journalist
1943 – 2026
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Valery Borshchyov
deadRussian politician and human rights activist
1943 – 2025
Riad al-Turk
deadSyrian activist
1930 – 2024
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Linda Masarira
deadZimbabwean politician
1982 – 2026