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Gruber Prize for Women's Rights

Sapana Pradhan Malla, a leader in securing legal reforms protecting the fundamental reproductive and property rights of women in Nepal, is president of the Forum for Women, Law & Development


Aasta Hansteen

She joined the The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (Norsk Kvinnesaksforening) and became an active contributor in the press on women's rights.

Amy Ray

Ray is also an activist involved in multiple political and social causes, including gay rights, low-power broadcasting, women's rights, indigenous struggles, gun control, environmental protection and the anti-death penalty movement among others.

Anja Breien

She was awarded the Gina Krog Prize in 2010.

Aurora Phelps

Aurora Phelps (1839 – 4 January 1876) was an American land reformer, labor organizer and leader, and women's rights advocate.

Daniel Amneus

According to Richard Doyle, editor of The Liberator and author of the book The Rape of the Male, and president of Men's Defense Association, "Amneus is the leading theoretician and articulator of the Father's rights and Men's rights movements".

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is the name given to a series of related children's rights proclamations drafted by Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb in 1923.

Expectations from the Muslim Woman

Expectations from the Muslim Woman, also called Our Expectations of the Muslim Woman, is regarded as one of Ali Shariati's most important lectures referring to women's rights in Islam.

Fatma Aliye Topuz

Fatma Aliye Topuz (9 October 1862 - 13 July 1936), aka simply Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian.

FORGE Program

There are five main project areas that FORGE is now working on: Education, Economic Development, Health Education, Women’s Empowerment and Community Enrichment.

Júlia Lopes de Almeida

she is remembered as an early advocate of modernized gender roles and increased women's rights, as a precursor to later women writers like Clarice Lispector, and for her support of abolition.

Lola Pearce

In November 2012, Irish politician Robert Troy expressed concerns that the storyline could influence the result of an upcoming referendum on children's rights.

Mohammad-Reza Khatami

In 1983, Khatami married Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ruhollah Khomeini (founder of the Islamic republic), and an activist in women's rights.

Mojca Kleva

Between 1999 and 2009 Mojca Kleva was a member Municipal Council of Koper, she also actively participated and led network of non-governmental organizations from the field of women's rights - Women's lobby Slovenia between 2007 and 2009.

NAACP in Kentucky

William English Walling from Louisville, Kentucky (1877–1936), an American labor reformer and socialist educated at the University of Chicago, the Hull House and Harvard Law School, brought his interest in women's rights to his work with the American Federation of Labor and founded the National Women's Trade Union League.

One Million Signatures

Iranian women's rights activists in Iran started the Campaign, to follow up a peaceful protest with the same aim on 12 June 2006 in Haft-e Tir Square in Tehran.

Östermalmstorg metro station

The major artwork of the subway station was created by Siri Derkert and symbolises women’s rights, world peace, and the green movement.

Peter French

Porter sold his small herd of cattle to French, and with the sale of his cattle went his squatter's rights to the west side of the Steens Mountain and his "P" brand.

Prada gender discrimination case

Tokyo Press Conference - On April 19, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) organized a press conference inviting international press for the first time after the women's rights civil lawsuit was filed against Prada at Tokyo District Court.

Filed: March 19, 2010 – Labor complaint moved up to a civil case against Prada for violating women's rights.

Yasser Abed Rabbo

Women's rights activist Zahira Kamal had been chosen in an internal election to replace him as minister in the government of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), but Abed Rabbo refused to step down, and instead left the party.


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