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  • Adelaide Foute Tega
  • Adimaimalaga (Adi) Tafuna'i
  • Afnan Al Zayani
  • Aigul Asakaeva
  • Amal Al Masri
  • Amat Alsoswa
  • Amel Bouchamaoui Hammami
  • Amira Hamdad
  • Amira Yahyaoui
  • Amy Oyekunle
  • Anabella de Leon
  • Andeisha Farid
  • Ann-Valerie Milfort
  • Annie Rashidi-Mulumba
  • Arjie Al Amad
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Awut Deng Acuil
  • Ayse Nur Gedik

B

  • Benedicta Nanyonga
  • Brigitte Dzogbenuku

C

  • Charm Tong
  • Chouchou Namegabe

D

  • Danielle Saint-Lot
  • Dawn Marole
  • Doron Shaltiel

E

  • Ekaete Umoh
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Esraa Abdel Fattah
  • Esraa Mahadin

F

  • Farida Azizi
  • Fatema Akbari
  • Fatima Al-Migdadi
  • Fatima Sadiqi
  • Fernanda Borges

G

  • Gladys Zarak

H

  • Hafsat Abiola
  • Hanan Saab
  • Hassina Syed
  • Hawa Abdi

I

  • Inez McCormack

J

  • Jaya Arunachalam
  • Jiskala Khalayli
  • Juliet Asante

K

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  • Kakenya Ntaiya

L

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  • Lara Ayoub
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  • Lucy Kanu

M

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  • Maria Pacheco
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  • Marina Pisklakova-Parker
  • Melinda French Gates
  • Moha Ennaji
  • Mozn Hassan
  • Mu Sochua
  • Muhammad Yunus
  • Mukhtar Mai

N

  • Nadine Perrault
  • Nellie Ssali
  • Noha Khatieb

O

  • Oksana Horbunova

P

  • Panmela Castro
  • Phelicia Dell
  • Prudence Galega

R

  • Randa Naffa
  • Rebecca Lolosoli
  • Rehmah Kasule
  • Reyna McPeck
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  • Rishi, Nishi & Ravi Kant
  • Rita Chaikin
  • Rola Dashti
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  • Roshaneh Zafar
  • Ruth Zavaleta Salgado

S

  • Sadiqa Basiri Saleem
  • Saisuree Chutikul
  • Salwa Sarhi
  • Salwa Bughaigis
  • Samar Haj Hassan
  • Samar Minallah Khan
  • Sandra Gomes Melo
  • Sara Katebalirwe
  • Shatha Al-Harazi
  • Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi
  • Shereen Allam
  • Sohini Chakraborty
  • Somaly Mam
  • Soraya Badraoui
  • Souad Slaoui
  • Sunitha Krishnan
  • Swati Chauhan

T

  • Temituokpe Esisi
  • Tep Vanny

W

  • Wang Xingjuan

X

  • Xie Lihua

Oksana Horbunova

Poland Chapter Eurasia Human Rights

Early on in her work with the Ukranian government, Oksana Horbunova was exposed to an unbelievable truth: a modern-day slave trade, fed by greed and misogyny, was claiming the lives of women around the world. 

Stories of captive women poured in, but the government was slow to act on a scourge few knew existed. Oksana saw an opportunity to lift the veil on human trafficking at the 1997 Vienna Vital Voices Conference.

While there, she exposed the plight of disappearing Ukrainian women to government officials from around the world, including then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her brave intervention produced the first U.S. – Ukraine bilateral agreement on trafficking. 

Today, Oksana works with the International Organization for Migration. Her hotline gives a voice to silenced women and reunites many victims with their families.