Co-founder and Chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative and life-long advocate of freedom, self-determination and human and civil rights, Jody Williams’ biography is teeming with significance in her pursuit of human security, social justice and true, sustainable peace. (more…)

Ugandan mother and trained midwife, Angelina Atyam became a devoted human rights activist in 1996 when her daughter, along with over 130 other schoolchildren, was kidnapped by anti-government and fundamentalist Christian guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). (more…)

Although Ayn Rand died in 1982, at the age of 77, her legacy remains alive through the Ayn Rand Institute, the Ayn Rand Society and the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights – and also through hundreds of thousands of curious individuals reading her books every year. Whether you agree with her system of philosophy called ‘objectivism’ or not, there’s no doubting she was solid in what she believed in, and probably more importantly why she believed in it, and that, in itself, is an inspiration. (more…)

Maria Bashir, Chief Prosecutor General, Herat Province, Afghanistan.

The inspirational Maria Bashir is the first female chief prosecutor general in war-torn, turbulent, male-dominated Afghanistan, a position that brings with it threats to her life and the lives of her children, and endless battles against violence, abuse, crime and corruption. (more…)