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CORRECTION APPENDEDAmelia Boynton Robinson, who was called the matriarch of the voting rights movement -- and whose photograph, showing her beaten, gassed and left for dead in the epochal civil [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Efua Dorkenoo, who for more than three decades waged an international campaign to eradicate the practice known as female genital mutilation, a centuries-old procedure that affects millions [...]

Irene Fernandez, a champion of the oppressed in Malaysia whose indefatigable advocacy for better treatment of foreign migrant workers prompted her government to denounce her as a traitor and human [...]

The work of human rights activists in protesting against oppressive conditions in many countries worldwide is described, including Vaclav Havel's fight for human rights in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s.

Srdja Popovic, a Serbian lawyer and celebrated human rights advocate who pressed for reform and free speech for five decades, first under Communist rule in the former Yugoslavia and later [...]

Sunila Abeysekera, a prominent human rights advocate who sought to bring the world's attention to myriad acts of violence in her country, Sri Lanka, despite threats against her own life, [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Oswaldo Paya, an eloquent Cuban activist who spent decades trying to build a grass-roots movement that would compel the government of Fidel and Raul Castro to allow [...]

Joan Dunlop, a global leader in addressing women's issues who helped prod the United Nations to define a woman's right to say no to sex as an essential human right, [...]

Byline: NOREEN SHANAHAN; Special to The Globe and Mail ALEXANDRA DODGER, 27 / ACTIVIST Not so long ago, Alexandra Dodger's peers at McGill law school unofficially voted her the most [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED JOHANNESBURG -- Albertina Sisulu, considered by many to be the mother of South Africa's liberation struggle, a woman who was hounded and jailed by the apartheid government but [...]

BUENOS AIRES -- Maria Ester Gatti de Islas, a Uruguayan teacher who became a human rights activist while helping to find people lost to political repression in South America, died [...]

Adrian W. DeWind, an adviser to presidents and governors on tax law and an influential advocate in the human rights and nuclear nonproliferation movements, died on Aug. 7 at his […]

Alison L. Des Forges, a human rights activist and historian who tried to call the world's attention to the looming genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and who later wrote what […]

Alison L. Des Forges, a historian who documented the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was an authority on human rights abuses in Central Africa, was a passenger on Continental Airlines […]

Byline: GAY ABBATE; Special to The Globe and Mail On April 19, 1964, Sydney Harris stood before 1,500 congregants at a Toronto synagogue and read aloud the names and addresses [...]

Helen Suzman, the internationally renowned anti-apartheid campaigner who befriended the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and offered an often lonely voice for change among South Africa's white minority, died in Johannesburg early […]

Byline: Hilary Pearson; submissions:lives@globeandmail.com Adiplomat's child, Katharine was born the second of five children. She was marked from the beginning by her charm. In her Parisian kindergarten, she distinguished herself [...]

Andree de Jongh, whose youth and even younger appearance belied her courage and ingenuity when she became a World War II legend ushering many downed Allied airmen on a treacherous, […]