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Liberty in North Korea

During his time with LiNK, co-founder Adrian Hong was hosted in an hour long Google Tech Talk with now world-renowned North Korean refugee Shin Dong-hyuk.

Patrick Rice

Patrick Michael Rice (also Patricio Rice) (September 1945, Fermoy – 8 July 2010, Miami) was an Irish human rights activist and former Catholic priest and religious who became a resident of Argentina.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Gita Sahgal, the writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, director of prize-winning documentary films, and human rights activist,is her granddaughter.


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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Some liberal activists who had supported the ousting of Morsi publicly voiced their concerns: "I'm not happy when they use violence. And I'm worried about them using it again," said Gamal Eid, a well-known human rights activist.

Alys

Alys Faiz (1914-2003), Pakistani poet, writer, journalist, human rights activist, social worker and teacher

André Hallet

He is the father of Jean-Pierre Hallet, an internationally recognized human-rights activist (on the behalf of the Efe pygmies in the Ituri forest of the Congo) who also lived in the Congo and Rwanda and was also an avid art collector.

Archives of Terror

The "Archives of Terror" (Archivos del Terror) were found on December 22, 1992, by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada, and judge José Agustín Fernández, in a police station in a suburb of Asunción (Lambaré), capital of Paraguay.

Arik

Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and Palestinian human rights activist in Israel

Asian University for Women

Notable advisers and patrons include Cherie Blair, British lawyer, human rights activist, and chancellor of AUW, and Marina Mahathir, Malaysian writer and human rights activist, as well as many other eminent individuals.

Betty Williams

Elisabeth Omilami (born 1951), née Elisabeth Williams, human rights activist, actress and writer

Dirie

Waris Dirie, born in 1965, model, author, actress and human rights activist

Dumebi Agbakoba

Dumebi Agbakoba was raised by her parents Olisa Agbakoba, a human rights activist and former Nigerian Bar Association President and Maritime Lawyer and Lilian, a lawyer and Realtor.

Egalitarian Mission, Africa

Egalitarian Mission, Africa is a non-governmental organization and non-profit organization founded and funded by Kayode Ajulo, a lawyer and human rights activist, to maintain and promote the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities.

Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights

Bette Bao Lord, human rights activist, China scholar and novelist.

George Vecsey

In addition to assisting Loretta Lynn, Vecsey has also helped several other celebrities and high-profile figures write their autobiographies, including American country singer Barbara Mandrell and Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu.

Ghulam Azam

Former caretaker government adviser, human rights activist and witness for the prosecution Sultana Kamal said- "In brutality, Ghulam Azam is synonymous with German ruler Hitler who had influential role in implementation and execution of genocide and ethnic cleansing".

Hassan Anvar

The article quoted Mehmet Tohti, a Uyghur human rights activist who stated that he had met with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.

Huang Qi

Following Huang's imprisonment, fellow human rights activist and pundit Liu Dan authored a piece on Huang's Tianwang website condemning Chinese President Hu Jintao's Harmonious Society ideology, saying that it was a "sham" in the face of Huang Qi's sentencing.

I Am Slave

The movie is mostly based on Mende Nazer, a British author, human rights activist and a former slave in Sudan.

Kakabadze

Irakli Kakabadze, a Georgian writer, performance artist, peace and human rights activist

LGBT rights in Cameroon

Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang, a leading African LGBT human rights activist from Cameroon

Mahnaz Samadi

However, John Ashcroft, serving in his then-capacity as Senator of Missouri wrote a May 10 plea for lenience in her hearing to Attorney General Janet Reno, arguing that Samadi was a "highly regarded human-rights activist".

Mary Boyoi

Mary Boyoi, singer, human rights activist and philanthropist, is from the Murle tribe of South Sudan.

Matossian

Nouritza Matossian (born 1945), British Cypriot writer, actress, broadcaster and human rights activist of Armenian origin

Mawdsley

James Mawdsley, human rights activist campaigning for democracy in Burma

Mejstřík

Martin Mejstřík (born 1962), Czech politician and human rights activist

Operation Umeed-e-Nuh

The Pakistani diplomats were renowned human rights activist and former Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney and Governor of Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan.

Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney and Governor of Sindh, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan managed to secure the release of the 22 men crew with a payout of US$2.1 million.

Pablo de Greiff

Pablo de Greiff is a Colombian human rights activist, currently serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.

Philippe Bourgois

In graduate school he worked for the Agrarian Reform ministry in Nicaragua (1980) during the Sandinista revolution and was a human rights activist on Capitol Hill advocating against military aid to the government of El Salvador in 1982.

Project on Middle East Democracy

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, exiled Egyptian human rights activist

Randy Charles Epping

Recent recipients of the prize have been human-rights activist and Czech President Václav Havel and Austrian Vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek who served as Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

Ritscher

Malachi Ritscher, musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester.

Ronald Reagan Freedom Award

2008 – Natan Sharansky, former KGB prisoner, human rights activist, Israeli politician.

Rüdiger

Rüdiger Nehberg (b. 1935), German human rights activist, author and survival expert

Samruk-Kazyna

In 2013 Aftenposten quoted Denis Jivaga (a human rights activist and lawyer) saying that there is an "oil fund in Kazakhstan, but nobody knows how the income is spent".

Sarabjit Singh

Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney claimed that none of the four FIRs filed with regard to the bombings contained Singh's name nor his description and that Singh had been arrested on the night of 30 August 1990 at the Kasur border for illegally crossing the Indo-Pakistani border.

Seifzadeh

Mohammad Seifzadeh (born 1948), Iranian lawyer and human rights activist

Sergio Aguayo

Sergio Aguayo Quezada (b. September 10, 1947, in La Rivera, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican academic and human rights activist.

The European Courier

Magazine's present and past contributors include former minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina Muhamed Sacirbey, political scientist Dr. Tadeusz A. Kisielewski, historian Dmitry Shlapentokh, economy professor and human rights activist Dr. Scott A. Hipsher, Arabic affairs specialist Dr. Konrad Pedziwiatr, international relations researcher Dr. Kerri Longhurst, political analyst Rick Robinson and others.

The Oslo Times

Afghan-born Norwegian human rights activist, author, editor, political analyst on Afghanistan, and journalist, Mr. Hatef Mokhtar is the founder and editor-in-chief of TOT.

Tom Zenovich

As a presidential candidate in the 9 December 2001 Transnistrian presidential election he came second, failing to beat the incumbent Igor Smirnov but getting more votes than his other rival, human rights activist Alexander Radchenko.

Trefor Jenkins

Trefor Jenkins, former dean of the medical school at the University of Witwatersrand, and a human rights activist, was one of six doctors, who questioned the ethics of the medical establishment and the previous South African government after the death, in custody, of Steve Biko, the Black Consciousness leader, in September 1977.

Vladimiro

(Vladimiro) Ariel Dorfman (born 1942), a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist

Vollertsen

Norbert Vollertsen (born 1958), German physician and human rights activist

Wael

Wael Abbas, Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist

William Bowring

William S. B. Bowring, born 1949, barrister, human rights activist and professor at Birkbeck, University of London

Winston Lord

Lord is married in 1963 to best selling author and human rights activist Bette Bao Lord and has two children, Elizabeth Pillsbury and Winston Bao.

Yu-7 torpedo

The Bush Administration had faced significant criticism from congress and many human rights activist groups for delivering the last batch of Mk 46 Mod. 2 torpedo to China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but the Bush Administration countered that the delivery was the completion of a previous deal made prior to the crackdown.