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Tania Bruguera: A profile
Tania Bruguera, an internationally celebrated artist whose work challenges the authorities in Cuba, has been branded a counter revolutionary, repeatedly arrested and harassed.
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Zanele Muholi: A profile
This South African photographer uses her portraits of black lesbian women to provide a platform where they can celebrate their identity.
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Diego Gómez: A profile
Eight years in jail and a US$327,000 fine. That’s the penalty biology student Diego Gómez was facing before he was found not guilty of criminal copyright infringement charges.
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Leonardo Sakamoto: A profile
Death threats, a criminal defamation suit and malicious propaganda campaigns have not stopped Leonardo Sakamoto from campaigning for an end to slave labour in Brazil.
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Glenn Greenwald: A profile
It’s a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it not when it’s easy and supports your position, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.
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Vladimir Kozlov: A profile
Jailed for campaigning for justice, Vladimir Kozlov – journalist, political activist and human rights defender – has long been a thorn in the side of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian president.
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Norma Cruz: A profile
Being a women’s rights activist in the country with the third highest rate of femicides in the world can be a deadly task. One that Norma Cruz has courageously taken on for the last 15 years.
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Máxima Acuña de Chaupe: A profile
Far from media attention, a Peruvian indigenous woman struggles to protect her land and water against large corporations.
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Laura Poitras: A profile
Laura Poitras has for years been monitored and harassed by the US security agencies whose surveillance activities, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, she helped expose.
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Sherlyn Montoya: A profile
Defending a human right as basic as respect for sexual orientation can be a deadly sin in Honduras, as demonstrated by the wave of attacks and assassinations perpetrated against activists in the country.
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Rodolfo Walsh: A profile
Forty years after his murder, the often surreal life of Argentina’s most renowned journalist-activist still captivates the imagination of the world.
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Nelson Carvajal Carvajal: A profile
Colombian radio journalist Nelson Carvajal Carvajal exposed local corruption; he was murdered in 1998 and his killers enjoy impunity. On 22 and 23 August 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard Carvajal’s case in Costa Rica, which IAPA had called “a milestone in the fight against impunity”
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Gareth Peirce: A profile
Gareth Peirce has spent 40 years fighting to overturn miscarriages of justice, many of which are the result of the over-zealous use of anti-terrorism measures.
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Mozn Hassan: A profile
Mozn Hassan has received praise and international accolades for refusing to separate politics from feminism. And that’s something the Egyptian government will not forgive easily.
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Where’d My Website Go?
The technology that blocks and filters the internet, explained.