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Yanelys Núñez Leyva

Cuban human rights activist and women’s activist. Co-founder of the San Isidro Movement, she is exiled in Madrid due to the persecution of the regime.

Alaa Bawaqneh

Alaa Bawaqneh is a Palestinian teacher and activist. She was born and has always lived in the refugee camp of Jenin, where she runs a women’s youth football team.

Justyna Wydrzyńska

Activist and advocate for abortion rights in Poland. She was recently convicted for helping a woman to carry out and abortion during the pandemic.

Randa Siniora

Randa Siniora is the woman at the front of the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) and Palestinian human rights activist

Andrea Torres Bautista

Prominent layer and the deputy director of a Foundation that chases enforced disappearances in Colombia

Esther Gómez Cordero

Esther Gomez is a University Professor and influencer on health and nursing issues through her project My Favorite Nurse.

Ana Gálvez

Engineer, PhD in Energy and Environment, and woman at the forefront committed to gender equality in STEM professions and sustainable development.

Hodan Sulaman

Hodan Sulaman is an activist against female genital mutilation. Spanish intercultural mediator of Somali origin. For 20 years, Hodan Sulaman has been...

Rahela Sidiqi

Activist for the right to education of Afghan women and girls. She evacuated hundreds of women from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul.

Vilma Núñez de Escorcia

Lawyer and human rights activist in Nicaragua, President of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights.

Massouda Kohistani

Afghan activist, researcher and Afghan refugee

Khadija Amin

Afghan journalist, women's rights activist, refugee

Rafa Valente Machava

Executive Director of the Associação Mulher, Lei e Desenvolvimento and activist against gender-based violence and for the rights and freedoms of women and girls in Mozambique.

Guadalupe Valdez

Dominican economist and politician, protagonist in the birth and development of the Parliamentary Fronts against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Angelique Ngoma

Since 1996, Gabon has been a witness and protagonist of the incorporation into women ' s policy and the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Bernadette Lahai

Sierra Leonean politician and pan-African parliamentarian, leads FAO initiatives on sustainable agriculture and gender equality.

Oulimata Guiro

Senegalese politician and member of the ECOWAS, committed to rural development in Senegal, the fight against poverty and women's entrepreneurship.

Gabriela Cuevas

Senator and Mexican Deputy throughout 4 legislatures, she has been the second woman president and the youngest of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Teresa Calix

Deputy in Honduras. He has promoted the legislative agenda of food security and coordinates the Parliamentary Front against Hunger in Mesoamerica.

Elena Larrinaga

Human rights and democratisation defender in Cuba from her exile in Spain.

Rocío Nieto

Founder and President of the Association for the Prevention, Reintegration and Care of Prostituted Women and an activist against trafficking and exploitation.