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This is a list of people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of human rights, ordered alphabetically by country of birth or residence. It includes politicians, artists, and other people who have championed human rights causes through activism or philanthropy in addition to dedicated human rights advocates and activists. Broadly defined, human rights are rights that belong to an individual or group of individuals simply for being human as a consequence of inherent human vulnerability or because they are requisite to the possibility of a just society.

Algerian

  • Lounés Matoub

American

Argentine

Australian

Austrian

Bangladeshi

Belgian

Brazilian

British

Cameroonian

Canadian

Chilean

  • Raúl Rettig Guissen
  • Sola Sierra
  • Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez
  • Sergio Valech Aldunate

Chinese

Colombian

Congolese

Costa Rican

Cuban

Czech

Danish

Dutch

East Timorese

Egyptian

Ethiopian

Finnish

French

German

Ghanaian

Greek

Guatemalan

Haitian

  • Gérard Jean-Juste

Indian

Indonesian

Iranian

Irish

Israeli

Italian

Japanese

Jordanian

Kenyan

Liberian

Malaysian

Mexican

Myanmar

New Zealander

Nigerian

Norwegian

Palestinian

Pakistani

Peruvian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Rwandan

  • Alphonse Marie Nkubito

Salvadoran

  • María Julia Hernández

Somalian

South African

South Korean

Swedish

Swiss

Trinidadian

Tunisian

Yemeni

Zimbabwean

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