Sep 18, 2017
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Anti-Apartheid Hero, Voice of Conscience, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Tutu was one of the two South African figures widely credited with bringing about the fall of South Africa’s oppressive Apartheid regime. The first...
Sep 18, 2017
Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977-81). Today he is widely considered one of the greatest ex-presidents in American history. On March 26, 1979, in a ceremony in Washington, Egypt and Israel formally sign a peace treaty ending 31 years of...
Sep 18, 2017
Lech Walesa was an electrician in the Gdansk shipyards of Poland in 1970 when shipyard workers clashed with the communist government. In 1978 he began to organize activists for labor unions, culminating in the 1980 strikes for workers’ rights, which spread across the...
Sep 18, 2017
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children’s rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. In 1980 he gave up his career as an engineer to work on freeing child slaves. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save the Childhood Movement)...
Sep 18, 2017
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist, often referred to in her country as the “Iron Woman” and the “Mother of the Revolution.” In 2005 she founded Women Journalists Without Chains, which advocates for...
