Feb 17, 2023
The International Memorial Society, known as Memorial, was set up in 1989 by dissidents — including renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov — during the final years of the Soviet Union. The group began documenting Soviet-era crimes such as Joseph...
Feb 12, 2023
Ukrainian human rights attorney Oleksandra Matviichuk heads the non-profit organization Center for Civil Liberties. Founded in 2007, the purpose of the organization was to pressure Ukraine’s government to make the country more democratic. Since the 2014 Russian...
Sep 18, 2017
José Ramos-Horta, Freedom Fighter and Democracy Builder, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate In 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor, rounded up their political leaders and executed them on the docks of the capital. They then began a systematic extermination of the Timorese...
Sep 18, 2017
The son of a tribal chief, Nelson Mandela began his opposition to South Africa’s government policies, which relegated blacks to non-voting, second-class citizens in a segregated society, while attending college. He went on to become a lawyer and joined the outlawed...
Sep 18, 2017
countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security—and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.” Mohamed ElBaradei was head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,...
