Profiles of exemplary figures
of civil courage from every corner of the globe
The Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide wishes to highlight the efforts of all those who have struggled and are still struggling to defend the persecuted and the innocent victims of crimes against humanity, to safeguard human rights wherever they are trampled on, to assert their desire for peaceful coexistence and their right to freedom of expression and the duty of truth.
Khalida Toumi Messaoudi (Algeria)
Alice Domon (Argentina)
Azucena Villaflor (Argentina)
Taslima Nasreen (Bangladesh)
Yuri Bandachevsky (Belarus)
Vassili Nesterenko (Belarus)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma-Myanmar)
Bo Kyi (Burma - Myanmar)
Ching Cheong (China)
Gao Xingjian (China)
Gao Zhisheng (China)
Hu Jia (China)
Teng Biao (China)
Zeng Jinyan (China)
Sylvie Maunga Mbanga (Congo)
John Rabe (Germany-China)
Guillermo Chen (Guatemala)
Norma Cruz (Guatemala)
Hashem Aghajari (Iran)
Ahmad Batebi (Iran)
Massoud Benhoud (Iran)
Akbar Ganji (Iran)
Mehrangiz Kar (Iran)
Neda Agha Soltan (Iran)
Enrico Calamai (Italy - Argentina)
Jean-Sélim Kanaan (Italy - France - Egypt)
Fatima Mernissi (Morocco)
Lydia Cacho (Mexico)
Maria Elena Moyano (Peru)
Raphael Lemkin (Poland)
Paul Klebnikov (Russia)
Anna Politkovskaya (Russia)
Natasha Kandic (Serbia)
Hawa Aden Mohamed (Somalia)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia)
Zandile Nhlengetwa (South Africa)
Gorka Landaburu (Spain)
Sunila Abeysekera (Sri Lanka)
Halima Bashir (Sudan-Darfur)
Sihem Bensedrine (Tunisia)
Ricky Richard Anywar (Uganda)
Father Emanuel Natalino Vura (Uganda)
Fannie Lou Hamer (USA)
Amina Wadud (USA)
Betty Makoni (Zimbabwe)
