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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aryeh Neier | Aryeh Neier | 1937 | n/a | American | human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS by being directly involved in the group SLID's renaming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Neier |
| Natan Sharansky | Natan Sharansky | null | null | Israeli | politician, human rights activist, and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natan_Sharansky |
| Ellen Ratner | Ellen Ratner | null | null | American | news analyst who formerly appeared on the Fox News Channel and appeared on The Strategy Room and The Long and Short of It. She is a retired White House correspondent and former bureau chief for Talk Media News, which she also managed, covering the White House and was heard on more than 400 radio stations across the US. Her brothers are New York City-based developer Bruce Ratner and the late human rights attorney Michael Ratner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ratner |
| Brooke Goldstein | Brooke Goldstein | null | null | null | human rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Goldstein |
| Peter Benenson | Peter Benenson | 1921 | 2005 | British | lawyer, human rights activist and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benenson |
| Hillel Neuer | Hillel C. Neuer | 1969 | 1970 | Canadian | international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Neuer |
| Arthur Schneier | Arthur Schneier | 1930 | n/a | Austrian | rabbi and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schneier |
| George Newhouse | George Newhouse | null | null | Australian | human rights lawyer and a former local councillor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Newhouse |
| Andrew Koenig | Joshua Andrew Koenig | 1968 | 2010 | American | character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Koenig |
| Robert L. Bernstein | Robert Louis Bernstein | 1923 | 2019 | American | publisher and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bernstein |
| Ariel Dorfman | Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman | 1942 | n/a | Argentine | novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Dorfman |
| David Keyes | David Keyes | null | null | Israeli | public relations representative and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keyes |
| Kalmen Kaplansky | Kalmen Kaplansky | 1912 | 1997 | null | civil, human rights and trade union activist in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmen_Kaplansky |
| Ron Castan | Aaron Ronald Castan | 1939 | 1999 | Australian | barrister and human rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Castan |
| Jacob Birnbaum | Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum | 1926 | 2014 | German | founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and other human rights organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Birnbaum |
| Zelda Rubinstein | Zelda May Rubinstein | 1933 | 2010 | American | actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Rubinstein |
| Peter Godwin | Peter Godwin | 1957 | n/a | Zimbabwean | author, journalist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Godwin |
| Bryan Fogel | Bryan Fogel | null | null | American | film director, producer, author, playwright, speaker and human rights activist, best known for the 2017 documentary Icarus, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Fogel |
| Ezra Nawi | Ezra Yitzhak Nawi | 1951 | 2021 | Israeli | Mizrahi Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Nawi |
| Anna Baltzer | Anna Baltzer | 1979 | n/a | American | public speaker, author and activist for Palestinian human rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Baltzer |
| Lev Razgon | Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon | 1908 | 1999 | Soviet | journalist, a prisoner of the Gulag from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1950 to 1955, a Russian writer and, latterly, a human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Razgon |
| Nitsana Darshan-Leitner | Nitsana Darshan-Leitner | null | null | Israeli | attorney, human rights activist, and the founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitsana_Darshan-Leitner |
| Héctor Timerman | Héctor Marcos Timerman | 1953 | 2018 | Argentine | journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héctor_Timerman |
| Geoffrey Bindman | Sir Geoffrey Lionel Bindman QC | 1933 | n/a | British | solicitor specialising in human rights law, and founder of the human rights law firm Bindman & Partners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bindman |
| Yelena Bonner | Yelena Georgievna Bonner | 1923 | 2011 | null | human rights activist in the Soviet former Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Bonner |
| Paul Oestreicher | Paul Oestreicher | 1931 | n/a | null | Anglican priest, Quaker, peace and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Oestreicher |
| Stuart Milk | Lawrence Stuart Milk | 1960 | n/a | American | LGBT human rights activist and political speaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Milk |
| Alan Borovoy | Alfred Alan Borovoy | 1932 | 2015 | Canadian | lawyer and human rights activist best known as the longtime general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Borovoy |
| Stanley Sheinbaum | Stanley K. Sheinbaum | 1920 | 2016 | American | peace and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Sheinbaum |
| Alexander Ginzburg | Alexander "Alik" Ilyich Ginzburg | 1936 | 2002 | Russian | journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ginzburg |
| Miklós Haraszti | Miklós Haraszti | 1945 | n/a | Hungarian | politician, writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miklós_Haraszti |
| William Schabas | William Anthony Schabas, OC | 1950 | n/a | Canadian | academic specialising in international criminal and human rights law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schabas |
| Hephzibah Menuhin | Hephzibah Menuhin | 1920 | 1981 | American | pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephzibah_Menuhin |
| Irena Veisaitė | Irena Veisaitė | 1928 | 2020 | Lithuanian | theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Veisaitė |
| Jean Kahn | Jean Salomon Kahn | 1929 | 2013 | French | Jewish community leader, human rights activist, and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Kahn |
| Gerda Weissmann Klein | Gerda Weissmann Klein | 1924 | n/a | Polish | writer and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Weissmann_Klein |
| Gaby Lasky | Gavriela "Gaby" Schutz Lasky | null | null | Israeli | politician, attorney, feminist, human rights activist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Lasky |
| Pavel Litvinov | Pavel Mikhailovich Litvinov | 1940 | n/a | Russian | U.S. physicist, writer, teacher, human rights activist and Soviet former-era dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Litvinov |
| Emanuel Litvinoff | Emanuel Litvinoff | 1915 | 2011 | British | writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Litvinoff |
| Leslee Udwin | Leslee Udwin | 1957 | n/a | British | Jewish filmmaker, actress, director, producer and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslee_Udwin |
| William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart | William Howard Goodhart, Baron Goodhart | 1933 | 2017 | British | Liberal Democrat politician, a leading property and human rights lawyer, and a member of the House of Lords | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goodhart,_Baron_Goodhart |
| Ginetta Sagan | Ginetta Sagan | 1925 | 2000 | Italian | human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginetta_Sagan |
| Noa (singer) | Achinoam Nini | null | null | Israeli | singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet, composer, and human rights activist working internationally | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa_(singer) |
| Louis Henkin | Louis Henkin | 1917 | 2010 | null | "often credited with creating the field of human rights law" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henkin |
| Eduard Kuznetsov | Edward Samoilovich Kuznetsov | 1939 | n/a | Soviet | dissident, human rights activist, Prisoner of Zion and writer who settled in Israel in 1979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Kuznetsov |
| Tom Gross | Tom Gross | null | null | British | journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gross |
| Rodolfo Stavenhagen | Rodolfo Stavenhagen | 1932 | 2016 | German | sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Stavenhagen |
| Helen Bamber | Helen Rae Bamber OBE, née Helen Balmuth | 1925 | 2014 | British | psychotherapist and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bamber |
| Jerome J. Shestack | Jerome Joseph "Jerry" Shestack | 1923 | 2011 | null | Philadelphia lawyer and human rights advocate active in Democratic Party politics who served as president of the American Bar Association (ABA) from 1997 to 1998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_J._Shestack |
| Marc H. Tanenbaum | Marc H. Tanenbaum | 1925 | 1992 | null | human rights and social justice activist and rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_H._Tanenbaum |
| Claire Palley | Claire Dorothea Taylor Palley, OBE | 1931 | n/a | South African | academic and lawyer who specialises in constitutional and human rights law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Palley |
| Ruth Gavison | Ruth Gavison | 1945 | 2020 | Israeli | expert of human rights, Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and recipient of the Israel Prize | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gavison |
| Gerhard Löwenthal | Gerhard Löwenthal | 1922 | 2002 | German | prominent journalist, human rights activist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Löwenthal |
| Iosif Begun | Iosif Ziselovich Begun, sometimes spelled Yosef | 1932 | n/a | Soviet | former refusenik, prisoner of conscience, human rights activist, author and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Begun |
| Uri Fruchtmann | Uri Fruchtmann | 1955 | n/a | Israeli | human rights activist, film producer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Fruchtmann |
| Felicia Langer | Felicia Langer | 1930 | 2018 | German | attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Langer |
| Judy Feld Carr | Judith Feld Carr | 1938 | n/a | Canadian | musicologist and human rights activist known for secretly bringing to freedom thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Feld_Carr |
| Arnold Zable | Arnold Zable | 1947 | n/a | Australian | writer, novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Zable |
| Jeremy Stone | Jeremy J. Stone | 1935 | 2017 | null | president of the Federation of American Scientists from 1970 to 2000, where he led that organization's advocacy initiatives in arms control, human rights, and foreign policy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Stone |
| Jack Nusan Porter | Jack Nusan Porter | null | null | American | writer, sociologist, human rights and social activist, and former treasurer and vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nusan_Porter |
| Justus Weiner | Justus Reid Weiner | 1950 | 2020 | null | human rights lawyer and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Weiner |
| Henry Schwarzschild | Henry Schwarzschild | 1925 | 1996 | null | activist for civil rights and human rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schwarzschild |
| Michael Dorfman | Michael Dorfman | 1954 | n/a | null | writer, essayist, journalist, human rights activist and activist of the Yiddish culture revivalist movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dorfman |
| Ruth Adler | Ruth Margaret Adler nee Oppenheimer | 1944 | 1994 | null | feminist, human rights campaigner and child welfare advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Adler |
| Morris C. Shumiatcher | Morris Cyril "Shumi" Shumiatcher | 1917 | 2004 | Canadian | lawyer, human rights activist, philanthropist, arts patron, art collector, author, and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_C._Shumiatcher |
| Michael Robinson (rabbi) | Michael Aaron Robinson | 1924 | 2006 | American | Reform rabbi, civil rights activist, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robinson_(rabbi) |
| Alexander Goldberg | Alexander Barnett Goldberg | 1974 | n/a | null | Dean of Religious Life and Belief, Coordinating and the Jewish Chaplain to the University of Surrey, England, a rabbi, barrister, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldberg |
| Carmel Budiardjo | Carmel Budiardjo | 1925 | 2021 | English | human rights activist, lecturer, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Budiardjo |
| Avigdor Feldman | Avigdor Feldman | 1948 | n/a | null | civil and human rights lawyer in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Feldman |
| Martin Scheinin | Martin Scheinin | 1954 | n/a | null | international law scholar who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin |
| Agnieszka Graff | Agnieszka Graff | 1970 | n/a | Polish | writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Graff |
| Arna Mer-Khamis | Arna Mer-Khamis | 1929 | 1995 | Israeli | Jewish political and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arna_Mer-Khamis |
| Victoria Riskin | Victoria Riskin | 1945 | n/a | American | author, psychologist, television writer and producer, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Riskin |
| Yael Lotan (writer) | Yael Lotan | 1935 | 2009 | Israeli | writer, journalist, editor, translator, peace and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Lotan_(writer) |
| Dina Kaminskaya | Dina Isaakovna Kaminskaya | 1919 | 2006 | null | lawyer and human rights activist in the Soviet Union who was forced to emigrate in 1977 to avoid arrest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Kaminskaya |
| Alan Gold (author) | Alan David Gold | 1945 | n/a | null | novelist, columnist, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gold_(author) |
| Mimí Langer | Marie "Mimí" Lisbeth Langer | 1910 | 1987 | Austrian | Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimí_Langer |
| Alexander Brod | Alexander Semenovich Brod | 1969 | n/a | Russian | human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brod |
| Yosyf Zisels | Yosyf Zisels | 1946 | n/a | null | human rights activist and Ukrainian dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosyf_Zisels |
| Semen Gluzman | Semen (Semyon) Fishelevich Gluzman | 1946 | n/a | Ukrainian | psychiatrist and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_Gluzman |
| Lev Schlossberg | Lev Markovich Schlossberg | 1963 | n/a | Russian | politician, human rights activist, journalist, chairman of the Pskov Oblast branch of Yabloko, and a member of its federal political committee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Schlossberg |
| Anatoly Yakobson | Anatoly Aleksandrovich Yakobson | 1935 | 1978 | null | literary critic, teacher, poet and a central figure in the human rights movement in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Yakobson |
| Tobias Barrington Wolff | Tobias Barrington Wolff | 1970 | n/a | null | professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Barrington_Wolff |
| Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit | Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit | 1919 | n/a | Argentine | human rights activist who is the current vice president and founding member of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Tarlovsky_de_Roisinblit |
| Yevgeny Zhovtis | Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Zhovtis Евгений Александрович Жовтис | 1955 | n/a | null | Kazakhstan human rights activist and director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zhovtis |
| Sylva Zalmanson | Sylva Zalmanson | 1944 | n/a | Soviet | Jewish Prisoner of Zion, human rights activist, artist and engineer who settled in Israel in 1974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylva_Zalmanson |
| Dorothy Zellner | Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner | null | null | American | human rights activist, feminist, editor, lecturer, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Zellner |
| Becca Heller | Rebecca Heller | null | null | null | lawyer specializing in human rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becca_Heller |
| Renée Slotopolsky de Epelbaum | Renée Slotopolsky de Epelbaum | 1920 | 1998 | Argentine | human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Slotopolsky_de_Epelbaum |
| Daniel Ivin | Daniel Ivin | 1932 | 2021 | Croatian | writer, politician and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivin |
| Mikhail Makarenko | Mikhail Yanovitch Makarenko | 1931 | 2007 | null | human rights activist, born in Romania to Orthodox Jewish parents, Yankel Hershkovich and Malka Weisman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Makarenko |
| Geraldine Van Bueren | Geraldine Van Bueren | null | null | British | international human rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Van_Bueren |
| Elisa Trotta Gamus | Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus | null | null | Venezuelan | lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist, named ambassador from Venezuela to Argentina by Juan Guaidó during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, and recognized immediately by Argentine president Mauricio Macri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Trotta_Gamus |
| Dan Laksov | Dan Laksov | 1940 | 2013 | Norwegian | mathematician and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Laksov |
| Jane I. Wells | Jane I. Wells | null | null | null | documentary filmmaker and activist whose films focus on global human rights and social justice issues | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_I._Wells |
| Nina Willner | Nina Willner | null | null | American | nonfiction author, a former intelligence officer and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Willner |
| Rose Zar | Rose Zar | 1922 | 2001 | null | Holocaust survivor and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Zar |
| Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim | Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim | 1943 | n/a | null | chairwoman of The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, a human rights organization in New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Oestreicher_Bernheim |
| Richard Benkin | Richard Benkin | null | null | American | human rights activist, journalist, writer and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Benkin |
| Ellen Marx (human rights activist) | Ellen Marx | 1921 | 2008 | null | human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Marx_(human_rights_activist) |
| Avraham Shifrin | Avraham Shifrin | 1923 | n/a | Soviet | human rights activist, Zionist, author, lawyer, and Israeli politician who spent a decade in Soviet prisons for allegedly spying for the US and Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Shifrin |
| Olga Murray | Olga Murray | null | null | null | retired lawyer and the founder and president of the Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that provides education, health care, human rights, and housing for disadvantaged children in Nepal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Murray |
| Haya Shalom | Haya Shalom | 1944 | n/a | null | lesbian feminist and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haya_Shalom |