Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay
Peace has been an elusive goal in Bai Bibyaon Bigkay’s lifetime, but she has never stopped working for it. For the Manobo leader, there can…
Honorate Nizigiyimana
As a girl growing up in Burundi, Honorate Nizigiyimana experienced firsthand the disregard toward women’s and girls’ human rights. But instead of accepting this injustice,…
Irina Maslova
“At one point in my life I found myself in a challenging economic environment in Russia, and I had a really difficult period of time,”…
Khadra Al Sanah
In the south of Israel lies the Negev desert. Officially, part of the land is “unoccupied.” But in reality, half of the Negev’s 160,000 inhabitations…
Leduvina Guill Zamora
When a little girl was sold to traffickers for $2,000; when a seven-year-old girl was raped by her stepfather; and when a woman was burned…
Magdalena Kafiar
The hardest thing about challenging civil rights violations in Papua is proving they exist. The Indonesian government has thrown a cloak of silence over past…
Forces United for Our Disappeared in Coahuila and Mexico
Soon after then-president Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs in Mexico in late 2006, human rights organizations began noticing an alarming trend. Alongside the…
Marta Alicia Alanis
Marta Alanis has been an activist for abortion rights since 1991, when she started Catholics for Choice in her city, Cordoba, Argentina. Though she is…