Civil courage
- Exemplary figures reported by Gariwo
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- Afghanistan
- Sonita Alizadeh the rapper who denounced the tragedy of child brides
- Algeria
- Khalida Toumi Messaoudi Algerian, minister for Communication and Culture in 2001
- Argentina
- Alice Domon French missionary in Argentina who was tortured and killed for her compassion
- Azucena Villaflor founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
- Belarus
- Yuri Bandachevsky scientist, anatomo-pathologist and Soviet dissident
- Vassili Nesterenko dissident Soviet nuclear physicist
- Bulgaria
- Ahmed Demir Dogan the opponent who set up a legal organization in defence of the rights and freedom of Bulgarian Turks
- Burma-Myanmar
- Aung San Suu Kyi 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
- Bo Kyi a student victim of torture and a civil liberty activist
- China
- Ching Cheong Chinese journalist
- Gao Xingjian Nobel Prize for Literature
- Gao Zhisheng lawyer and human rights activist
- Hu Jia journalist and the man behind the “letter of a thousand signatures”
- Teng Biao Chinese lawyer and human rights activist
- Zeng Jinyan cyber human rights activist
- Congo
- Sylvie Maunga Mbanga lawyer against rape and for dialogue between ethnic groups
- Congo
- Denis Mukwege A doctor against rape in the Congo
- Eritrea
- Alganesh Fessaha a woman to the rescue of migrants in Africa and Lampedusa
- Germany-China
- John Rabe the Nazi who saved Chinese lives in Nanking
- Greece
- Christoforos Schuff the priest "fisher of men"
- Efi Latsoudi Coordinator of the Pikpa Solidarity Camp and winner of 2016 Nansen Refugee Award for her tireless work helping refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos
- Emilia Kamvisi the grandmother of Lesvos
- Eric Kempson The English artist who rescues the 'lost souls' of Lesvos.
- Melinda McRostie owner of The Captain's Table: the restaurant of Lesvos helping the refugees
- Stratos Valiamos fisher of men in the Isle of Lesbos
- Daphne Vloumidi the hotel owner from Lesbos who was arrested for driving them to the ferry embarkment to Athens the refugees landed in 2015
- Guatemala
- Guillermo Chen campaigner for justice for the Maya massacres
- Norma Cruz women’s rights activist and former guerrilla fighter
- India
- Flavia Agnes a lawyer for women’s rights, writer and activist of gender issues
- Iran
- Hashem Aghajari the historian persecuted for criticizing the ayatollahs
- Ahmad Batebi a student persecuted by the ayatollahs
- Massoud Benhoud a journalist persecuted for his defence of freedom of information
- Akbar Ganji the journalist who symbolizes dissent against the regime of the ayatollahs
- Mehrangiz Kar lawyer, writer, lecturer at Harvard University
- Neda Agha Soltan a symbol of Iranian dissent
- Iraq
- Vian Dakhil Yazidi deputy against the Islamic State
- Italy
- Albino Badinelli the policeman who turned himself in to the Nazi-Fascists to save 20 hostages and the whole country from the retaliation
- Costantino Baratta the bricklayer from Lampedusa who saved 12 Eritrean children during the massacre of 3 October
- Daniela Pompei Responsible of the Sant'Egidio Community's services for migrants
- Italian Coast Guard women and men that risk their lives to save the ones on the run from hunger and violence
- Maria Quinto Coordinator of the humanitarian corridors and of the migrants services promoted by the Sant'Egidio Community
- Teresio Olivelli the "rebel out of love"
- Ada Rossi She helped create and disseminate the Manifesto of Ventotene and set up the European Federalist Movement
- Vito Fiorino rescuer of refugees in Lampedusa
- Italy - Argentina
- Enrico Calamai the vice consul who rescued 300 people from the military dictatorship
- Italy - France - Egypt
- Jean-Sélim Kanaan aid worker killed in the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad
- Lebanon
- Samir Kassir journalist and Political Activist
- Mali
- Abdel Kader Haidara The saviour of the Timbuktu manuscripts
- Mexico
- Lydia Cacho journalist and women’s rights activist
- Morocco
- Fatima Mernissi writer, lecturer in sociology at the Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco
- Nigeria
- Wole Soyinka Committed intellectual, protagonist of struggle against african dictatorships's violences
- Peru
- Maria Elena Moyano a “pasionaria” in the fight against poverty
- Poland
- Raphael Lemkin the great jurist who coined the word “genocide”
- Russia
- Paul Klebnikov an American journalist in Russia
- Anna Politkovskaya murdered in Moscow for reporting atrocities in Chechnya
- Saudi Arabia
- Raif Badawi the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes
- Serbia
- Natasha Kandic human rights activist in Serbia
- Somalia
- Hawa Aden Mohamed teacher and girls’ rights activist
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali member of the European Parliament
- South Africa
- Nelson Mandela the "giant" of the struggle against apartheid
- South America
- Zandile Nhlengetwa campaigner for dialogue and reconciliation
- Spain
- Gorka Landaburu A Spanish journalist targeted by ETA
- Sri Lanka
- Sunila Abeysekera singer, actress and minority rights activist
- Sudan-Darfur
- Halima Bashir a doctor in Darfur
- Syria
- Ghayath Mattar Syrian activist killed because of his struggle for democracy
- Tunisia
- Sihem Bensedrine journalist and civil rights activist
- Mohammed Bouazizi the young boy who gave rise to the Arab Springs
- Turkey
- Taner Akcam a Turkish professor who denounced the Armenian Genocide
- Orhan Pamuk Nobel Prize who reported clashes and connections between different cultures
- Pinar Selek Turkish sociologist and peace and human rights activist
- Elif Shafak writer against discriminations
- Ragip Zarakolu a Turkish writer in defense of ethnic minorities
- Uganda
- Ricky Richard Anywar a former child soldier who rescues children from the militias
- Father Emanuel Natalino Vura the priest that rescues child soldiers
- USA
- Fannie Lou Hamer outspoken advocate of civil and political rights for African Americans
- Amina Wadud professor of Islamic studies in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department of Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Zimbabwe
- Betty Makoni champion of women’s rights in Africa
- Exemplary figures reported by users
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- Italy
- Mons. JP Carroll Abbing Founder of the "Opera Nazionale Per Le Citta' Dei Ragazzi", he devoted his life to the assistance and education of young people without a family
- United States
- Keshia Thomas Activist, humanitarian, community organizer, professional public speaker.