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2. Eileen Donahoe - Wikipedia

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   Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe is an American diplomat and human rights activist who was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, having been appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. [1] [2] She was the first ambassador following the referent UN body changing from the predecessor United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

3. Human rights defender - Wikipedia

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   The term human rights defender (HRD) became commonly used within the international human rights community after the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (A/RES/53/144, 1998), commonly known as the Declaration on Human Rights ...

4. Mary Lawlor (human rights advocate) - Wikipedia

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   The focus of Lawlor's career has been the protection of human rights defenders, after a few early years selling encyclopaedias in Canada, and teaching at kindergarten. [2] She joined the Irish branch of Amnesty International as a fundraiser, after meeting and being inspired by Seán MacBride. In 1975 she became a member of its Board and for ...

5. Michael Posner (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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   Michael H. Posner (/ ˈ p oʊ z n ər /; born November 19, 1950) is an American lawyer, the Founding Executive Director and later the President of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), the former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) of the United States, currently director for the Center of Business and Human Rights at NYU ...

6. James Cavallaro - Wikipedia

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   James (Jim) Cavallaro is a professor of law and the co-founder and executive director of the University Network for Human Rights. [1] He teaches human rights at Wesleyan University, where he is a director of the Minor in Human Rights Advocacy, as well as the Wesleyan ACTS for Human Rights program.

7. Fabrice Houdart - Wikipedia

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   His tenure at the United Nations Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - from 2016 through to 2020 - saw him working on the Free & Equal campaign and co-authoring and leading the United Nations Global LGBTI Standards of Conduct for Business. [13] [14] World Bank [2002-2016]

8. Andrea J. Prasow - Wikipedia

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   Andrea J. Prasow is an American attorney and global human rights advocate. She leads The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based organization whose mission is "to bring international attention to the plight of political prisoners in the Middle East and advocate for their release."

9. Margaret Huang - Wikipedia

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   Margaret L. Huang is an American human rights and racial justice advocate, [1] and president and chief executive officer of Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an American civil rights nonprofit. She joined the organization in April 2020, [2] [3] taking over a position held for several decades by founder Morris Dees.