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Emma Sulkowicz received the National Organization for Women's 2016 Woman of Courage Award.

In 2012, the State Department gave Ms. Badawi an International Woman of Courage Award.

"It is said that a single man or woman of courage makes a majority," Mr. Schiff said.

Who among us many years from now will receive such praise as a man or woman of courage?

S. First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry honored her as an International Woman of Courage.

She works for the Australian Federal Police Community Liaison Team and was awarded the Woman of Courage and Leadership Award from the US Consule General in 2014.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State said it was deeply concerned about the conviction of Quynh, who she described as a 2017 International Woman of Courage awardee.

Her determination to fight for her rights was recognised in 2012 by the US State Department, when she was given the International Woman of Courage award by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.

She wrote, "We had the pleasure of meeting a great woman of courage, Nadia Murad, who personally experienced inhumane torture from ISIS and lost many of her family members to their brutality." pic.twitter.

His death will leave a void that no one currently can fill and at a time when a man or a woman of courage must take a stand against the corruption we see emanating from high places in our government.

"Ni Yulan was recognized as an international woman of courage for her work advocating for and defending the rights of Chinese citizens under the P.R.C. Constitution and laws," Benjamin Weber, a spokesman for the American Embassy in Beijing, said, using the abbreviation for the People's Republic of China.

One of the best examples of this is Sister Maria Elena Berini, a 2018 International Woman of Courage nominated by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See , who for the last four decades has served in war-torn communities in Africa – first in Chad and now in the Central African Republic.

Tetzel played in When a Girl Marries and Woman of Courage, both on CBS.

Zarifa was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage on 4 March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Yasmin Al Qadhi is a Yemeni journalist who rescues child soldiers. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.

In September 2014 Howard received an "Outstanding Achievement Award" from the children's charity Variety. In December 2014 Howard was named 'Ultimate Woman of Courage' by Cosmopolitan magazine.

Ghulam Sughra (born: March 2, 1970)Ghulam Sughra Solangi a woman of courage, dailytimes Pakistani, Published by Salman Ali on AUGUST 25, 2017. is a Pakistani activist.

She won the 2002 YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, the Ohio Health Speaking of Women Health Award, NAACP Freedom Award, Woman of Courage Award, and the Urban League Leadership Recognition Award.

Dr Beauty Rita Nyampinga (born 1958) is a Zimbabwean campaigner for women prisoners. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Woman of Courage Scholarship She had a small part as a TV Anchor in the 1999 movie, True Crime.Internet Movie Database: True Crime She lives in Berkeley, California and has two children.

She was listed in 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019 by BBC. Zarifa was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Moumina Houssein Darar (1 June 1 1990 Ali Sabieh in Djibouti) 1 , is a Djiboutian Anti-Terrorism police investigator. She was recognised as a Woman of Courage by the American Secretary of State in 2019.

Dr. Nyampinga won the Female Human Rights Activist of the Year in 2014 from Alpha Media House. Nyampinga was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Lara Aharonian (born 1972) is a Lebanese Canadian Armenian rights activist. She is the director of the Women's Rights Centre in Yerevan. She has been recognised as a "Woman of Courage" by the United Nations.

In March 2011, she received the Woman of Courage Award handed over by US Vice President Joe Biden.Встреча с вице-президентом США, grani.ru, 10.03.2011 On this occasion, she proposed imposing sanctions on Russian politicians including Minister of Transport Igor Levitin.

Although it was not until 2019 that the first successful case was brought. Her team has also seized illegal goods and they took $1.6m of timber in the largest ever seizure. She was recognized as a Woman of Courage in 2019.

Amaya Eve Coppens (born 1994) is a Nicaraguan Belgian student activist. She is a leading figure of the April 19 University Movement, founded during protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais recognised Coppens as the most influential person in South America. At a time of turmoil she was "a moral and political benchmark". She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Amina Khoulani (born ) is a Syrian survivor of Assad's prisons who gained exile in Manchester in the UK in 2014. Since then she has campaigned for other prisoners and helped to support their families. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.

The US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina nominated Fata Orlović for the international "The Woman of Courage" award, given to brave women who fight for their rights in a nonviolent way. Orlović was chosen as the 2007 Person of the Year by the Bosnian newspapers "Dnevni avaz" and "Preporod".

Shahla Humbatova has been an Azerbaijani human rights lawyer since 2013. After speaking out about prison conditions she found herself disbarred from being a lawyer. There were international protests and in 2020 she was recognised as an International Woman of Courage by the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.

Susanna Liew (born ) is a Malaysian protester at her husband's abduction and disappearance in Malaysia. In 2020 she was suing the senior officials for failing to carry out an investigation and a month later she was recognised by the US Secretary of State as an International Woman of Courage for her stand.

In 2013, threats against her organisation became so specific that they asked for the police to investigate. Aharonian lives in Armenia in with her partner and her four children. In 2014 she was honoured with a UN "Woman of Courage" award, presented by Kathy Leach who was the British Ambassador to Armenia.

She founded a non-profit organisation, 'We the Humans – Pakistan', which aims to empower local communities in Balochistan by strengthening opportunities for vulnerable women and children. She was named in BBC's 100 Women of 2019, and was chosen as an International Woman of Courage by the United States Department of State in March 2020.

Claire Ouedraogo (born ) is a nun and an anti female genital mutilation (FGM) activist in Burkina Faso. She became the President of the Songmanegre Association for Women’s Development (Association féminine songmanegre pour le développement) and one of her country's Ambassador of Peace. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.

In 2009, the US Department of State named Cruz an International Woman of Courage, stating that Cruz served as "an inspiration and symbol of courage and hope to women in Guatemala and women everywhere who are working for positive change." She received the award from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Sayragul Sauytbay ( ~1977 - ) is a Chinese doctor, headteacher and whistle blower for the Kazakh Chinese people. She left China illegally and then she told the media about the Xinjiang re-education camps where people are re- educated in China. Sweden offered her political asylum after Kazakhstan refused. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.

Her foundation is encouraging employers to recruit them as these women do not want to be spectators to Yemen's future. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage on 4 March 2020 by the US Secretary of State. After the award she went to San Diego where she was welcomed for a four-day visit hosted by the San Diego Diplomacy Council.

Al-Baidhani later founded the Alesrar NGO for Youth Development which helps coordinate volunteerism for those with disabilities in 2006. In 2007, the U.S. Embassy to Yemen honored her as a "Woman of Courage." In 2008, the Kuwaiti Embassy in Sana'a awarded Al-Baldhani $30,000 for her NGO work. In 2012, Al-Baidhani died in Sana'a from complications from a respiratory disease.

This allowed the Djiboutian National Police (DNP) to thwart several planned terrorist attacks following the attack of La Chaumière, in 2014 in Djibouti. She has created a neighborhood charity to help children in need, as well as to provide other services and assistance to help the local community. She received on 7 March 2019 the Woman of Courage award by Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State.

She has been concerned with the problem of tuberculosis in circus elephants for many years. See her 2007 article in Truth-Out.org, "The Elephant in the Room" The Elephant in the Room More recently she has been involved in making the movie "When Giants Fall".When Giants Fall When Giants Fall In 2005 she developed the Leslie R. Griffith Woman of Courage Scholarship to help young women.

On January 20, 2015, Malouma, Mauritania's "singer of the people and Senator", was honored by the American ambassador, Larry André, at a lunch attended by notable leaders, especially women, from the country's civil society. Presenting Malouma with the Mauritanian Woman of Courage award, the ambassador noted her "exceptional courage and leadership in advocating human rights, women, gender equality and harmony amongst the cultural traditions of Mauritania".

In the 2002 election, Bostwick lost her re-election bid to Melanie Griffin. In 2011, Bostwick became the Deputy to the Governor General. Bostwick served as president of the Free National Movement Women's Association, president of the International Caribbean Women for Democracy and on the Executive Committee of the Girl's Brigade. In 2012, she was honored as Nassau's nominee of the International Woman of Courage Award.

While the second woman to circumnavigate the globe, Rose de Freycinet was the first to tell her tale. In his official report Louis de Freycinet records that 'I named Rose Island, from the name of someone who is extremely dear to me'.Rivière, M.S., 1996, A Woman of Courage: The journal of Rose de Freycinet on her voyage around the world 1817–1820. National Library of Australia.

Khoulani devoted herself to campaigning for the release of other Syrian prisoners and in 2017 she was one of the founders of "Families for Freedom". The British-based charity helps the families of those detained or missing. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage on 4 March 2020 by the US Secretary of State. After the ceremony she was hosted in Birmingham, Alabama.

On 2 June 2019 she flew to Sweden, after the intercession of the United Nations, where she was then given political asylum. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage on 4 March 2020 by the US Secretary of State. Within days the Chinese authorities stated that she was wanted for loan fraud and illegally crossing borders. They said "She made up lies to confuse the public and smear Xinjiang".

"It's kind of bittersweet for Maryanne Connelly and the Democratic Party because what we said at the time proved to be right." Ferguson defeated Connelly, she received 48% of the vote. Connelly was recognized by the National Organization for Women with a NOW Woman of Courage Award for the race in 2001 for her "uphill struggle to have a woman taken seriously as a legitimate candidate in a highly contested race".

The Anuarite Woman of Courage in the D.R.C. Prize was established in 2009, named after the late sister to honor her courage and strength. The prize is meant to recognize and honor the vital contribution of women to the development of democratic values in the nation. On an annual basis a cash prize is awarded to a Congolese woman who helped to make her area a better place through hard work and dedication.

On July 21, 2006, DiFranco received the Woman of Courage Award at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and Young Feminist Summit in Albany, New York. DiFranco was one of the first musicians to receive the award, given each year to a woman who has set herself apart by her contributions to the feminist movement. In 2009, DiFranco received the Woody Guthrie Award for being a voice of positive social change.

In 2009, the U.S. Department of State honored Norma Cruz as an International Woman of Courage. It was stated that Norma Cruz was "an inspiration and symbol of courage and hope for women in Guatemala and women around the world who are working for positive change." She received the award from the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and from the First Lady Michelle Obama.Norma Cruz Award - US Dep of State Official Blog - DipnoteH.

Despite making a successful transition to sound films, she mainly was relegated to supporting roles by the mid-1930s. Her last leading role was in To the Last Man in 1933, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Randolph Scott. Ralston made her final film Tin Pan Alley in 1940 and chose to retire from films. She continued working on the stage and in radio throughout the 1940s, including being the leading lady for part of the run of Woman of Courage.

She defends and sympathizes with Queen Caroline of Denmark, for example, who had been accused of "licentiousness" for her extra-marital affair during her marriage to the insane Christian VII. (Wollstonecraft herself had had unorthodox love affairs and an illegitimate child.) Wollstonecraft describes this royal, who was also a progressive social reformer, as a woman of courage who tried to revolutionize her country before it was prepared.Jacobus, 75; Todd, 368, Swaab, 25–26. Such examples fuel Wollstonecraft's increasing despair and melancholy.

Mabele received the honour of carrying the Olympic flame as part of an international torch relay for the 2004 Olympics in Greece. She was the recipient of many human rights awards over the course of her career. These included a Woman of Courage Award from SOS Children's Villages, Gauteng Provincial Government's premier woman award, Out's recognition for involvement in HIV/AIDS Activism and Eskom's workplace response recognition award. In 1999, she was given the Felipa de Souza Award by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Woman of Courage Award from City of Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women - 1998Staff Thai Community Development Center. Retrieved 20 July 2015. Mentor Award from Los Angeles Women's Foundation - 1997Loper, Mary Lou. Listen! It’s the Sound of Shuffling Chairs. "Los Angeles Times" 29 June 1997. Retrieved 20 July 2015. Leadership Award from Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics - 1997Staff Thai Community Development Center. Retrieved 20 July 2015. Woman Warrior Award from Asian Pacific Women's Network - 1996Staff Thai Community Development Center. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

She began practising law in Azarbaijan in 2013 where lawyers who are advocates in human rights cases can find themselves abused on-line and even disbarred, She is one of two women who are willing to champion such cases in her country's conservative culture. She has attracted criticism, and admiration, for defending LGBT clients. Her example is encouraging others to follow. Her International Woman of Courage award In 2019 she spoke publicly about the poor conditions of the political prisoner and journalist Mehman Huseynov.

Eventually, she landed a part on her own in the 1923 Theatre Guild production of Peer Gynt, with Joseph Schildkraut, and became a respected Broadway actress. She made one film in the 1930s, Misleading Lady, but otherwise worked on the stage and on radio. Royle began her radio career in 1926 or 1927 and performed "almost continuously since", according to a 1939 newspaper item. Her body of work includes playing the title role in Hilda Hope, M.D. She also played Martha Jackson in Woman of Courage, Mrs.

Stella Saaka is a Ghanaian women's rights activist based in the Talensi district of the Upper East region of Ghana. It is known that women in the Upper East region face difficulties in acquiring land. She is however known as the only woman to have successfully convinced the traditional and local authorities to part with 29 acres of land for 30 women farmers in the Talensi District. In 2019, she was honored by Stephanie Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador with a Ghana Woman of Courage Award.

Valdete Idrizi with Secretary Rice Valdete Idrizi (born 1973)oralhistorykosovo.org is the executive director of the CiviKos platform (in 2017). She was the executive director of the NGO Community-Building Mitrovica, which she founded, and which works for peace and builds community in the Mitrovica region in northern Kosovo.Kosovo's 'Woman of Courage' Bridges Ethnic Divide WBUR & NPR For six years prior to 2008, Community-Building Mitrovica was the only organization in Mitrovica which encouraged reconciliation and rebuilding of relationships between ethnic Albanians and Serbs.

Llewellyn was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, one of the four children of Mavis and Clinton Llewellyn; her mother was a nurse and her father was a realtor. She grew up in Pembroke Hall, a suburb in Kingston's north, attending St. George's Primary School and St. Hugh's High School. Llewellyn went on to the University of the West Indies at Mona, attending the Norman Manley Law School.Jamaica's first female DPP a woman of courage under fire , Jamaica Observer, 19 March 2014.

Though no longer an elected official, she remains an active community organizer through the We Are Women Warriors empowerment group and is a frequent radio guest on WUFO. In 2018, she received the Western New York Peace Center's Lifetime Achievement Award at its 51st Annual Dinner. That same year she also received the Woman of Courage, Compassion and Commitment Award during the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's kickoff event for Women's History Month. Legislator Grant worked at the Erie County Board of Elections after her time in the Legislature.

In 2007, the magazine Islands Business named her "Pacific Person of the Year", in recognition of her efforts towards poverty alleviation, against domestic violence and child abuse, against HIV and AIDS and in favour of women's empowerment. Dame Carol Kidu received the PNG International Woman of Courage Award from the Secretary of State of the United States of America in 2007. She has received honorary doctorates from Vudal University (Madang, PNG), University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of Papua New Guinea in recognition of her services to the people of Papua New Guinea.

Cases she has campaigned for include the disappeared Christian couple Ruth Sitepu and Joshua Hilmy and Amri Che Mat. In February 2020 she announced that she was suing named senior individuals in Malaysia. The case could not be delayed any further as it was nearly three years since her husband's abduction and after three years the case would be considered too old. On 4 March 2020 she was recognised by the US Secretary of State as an International Woman of Courage for her stand against the authorities "because of their rights as Malaysians".

Zuzana Petková is director of Stop Corruption Foundation. She is also former investigative journalist and reporter, who worked in a number of Slovak broadsheet newspapers, including SME, Trend and Hospodárske noviny, and has been the Managing director of Stop Corruption Foundation since August 2018. She holds a degree in Journalism from Comenius University in Bratislava. In her career as a journalist she uncovered several corruption scandals, and three times was awarded the National Journalism Award. In 2019, she received the US Embassy's "Woman of Courage" Award, for her “unflinching resolve to inform the Slovak public about corruption and take steps to combat”.

Rosa is a children's picture book written by poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier.Rosa, Publishers Weekly, August 29, 2005. A biography of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, Giovanni was the first recipient of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 10, 2004. and knew Parks personally through their involvement in civil rights activism.“Read Together With Nikki Giovanni and Brian Collier”, PBS Rosa was published in October 2005, as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott.

When elections were again held in 2009, she became a senator for the opposition Ech-Choura party where she was given special responsibilities for the environment. This led in 2011 to her appointment as the IUCN's Goodwill Ambassador for Central and West Africa. In December 2014, she announced she was moving from the opposition to join the ruling party, the Union for the Republic, where she felt she could be more effective in contributing to the country's progress. Her work has been recognized by the French, who decorated her as a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and the Americans, whose ambassador to Mauritania named her a Mauritanian Woman of Courage.

She was characterized as a woman of courage and strength which was something that she displayed early on, by starting from bottom and guiding herself up to the top, by earning a doctor degree. Sarah had faced numerous conflicts within her life, as well as career that ultimately resulted from her gender and social class within the time period. She was a woman that wanted other woman to have a choice in their life, starting with their own body. She left the decision to prevent pregnancy up to other woman which caused this conflicting argument of whether or not her theory behind birth control was valid and if it disobeyed the churches' opinion.

Louis de Freycinet. At age 19, Rose married 35-year-old Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, a member of the French aristocracy. The difference in social class proved no impediment for a happy marriage; by all accounts, her in-laws loved and respected her, and throughout her life, Rose maintained an animated correspondence with her in-laws, wherever her travels took her. Rose Freycinet, Woman of Courage; the Journal of Rose de Freycinet on her Voyage around the World 1817-1820, translated and edited by Marc Serg Riviere National Library of Canberra, National Library of Canberra, 2003 Over the course of her journey she also corresponded with her mother, Madame Pinon,Lettres de Mme.

She was brought up in a Chistian family who would go an annual pilgrimage. She decided early that she wanted a Christian life and in 2005 she was studying the bible with choir of a new church when she came across a life changing verse about how people would not be given in marriage, but be like the angels after the resurrection. She decided this was her vocation and in 2006 she went to Togo to spend some weeks with the nuns there. She became a nun on the 7 September 2013 in Yaoundé in Cameroon where she had been a novice for two years. 4 March 2020 award Ceremony for Woman of Courage She became the President of the Songmanegre Association for Women’s Development (Association féminine songmanegre pour le développement).

Streisand was presented Distinguished Merit Award by Mademoiselle in 1964, and selected as Miss Ziegfeld in 1965. In 1968, she received the Israel Freedom Medal, the highest civilian award of Israel, and she was awarded Pied Piper Award by ASCAP and Prix De L'Academie Charles Cros in 1969, Crystal Apple by her hometown City of New York, Woman of Achievement in the Arts by Anti-Defamation League in 1978. In 1984, Streisand was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. She received the Woman of Courage Award by the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Scopus Award by American Friends of The Hebrew University.

Jansila Majeed (center) with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) and US First Lady Michelle Obama (right) Jansila Majeed is an activist in Sri Lanka's Puttalam District. She is the Managing Trustee of the Community Trust Fund in Puttalam, which is an NGO which promotes minority rights and women's rights. Prior to her work with the Community Trust Fund, Majeed lived as an internally displaced person(IDP) for 20 years, and she continues to advocate for the rights of Muslim and Tamil IDPs. In 2010, she was named an International Woman of Courage by the US Department of State, receiving her award from First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She was also a speaker at the launch of the UNDP 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report on Gender, and stated that Sri Lanka must change its attitude about women's rights in order to fix issues such as women’s political participation, access to legal rights and women’s participation in the workforce.

Malouma Meidah receiving the 2015 Mauritanian Woman of Courage award Malouma was selected in 2003 by the jury as one of the World Music Expo (WOMEX) showcase artists and two years later she was selected by BBC musicologist Charlie Gillett, for his 2005 selected compilation Favorite Sounds of the World CD. That same year, N'Diaye Cheikh, a Mauritanian filmmaker, produced a documentary about her, entitled Malouma, diva des sables (Malouma, Diva of the Sands) with Mosaic Films, which won Best Documentary at the Festival international du film de quartier (FIFQ; Dakar, Senegal) and a 2007 Prize of Distinction from Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA), held in Biarritz, France. She was a runner-up for the Middle East and North Africa in the 2008 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. The griot-artist community of Mauritania has also acclaimed her by calling her the "first true composer in Mauritania". Malouma was decorated in 2013 as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French ambassador, Hervé Besancenot, acting on behalf of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.

McCartney received the VH1/Vogue Designer of the Year award in 2000 in New York. Her father Paul presented the award to her; she thanked him in her acceptance speech and dedicated the award to her late mother Linda. This was followed by the Woman of Courage Award for work against cancer at the prestigious Unforgettable Evening event (2003, Los Angeles), the Glamour Award for Best Designer of the Year (2004, London), the Star Honoree at the Fashion Group International Night of the Stars (2004, New York), the Organic Style Woman of the Year Award (2005, New York), the Elle Style Award for Best Designer of the Year Award (2007, London), Best Designer of the Year at the British Style Awards (2007, London), Best Designer of The Year at the Spanish Elle Awards (2008, Barcelona), and the Green Designer of the Year at the ACE Awards (2008, New York). In 2009, she was honoured by the NRDC, featured in the Time 100 and recognised as Glamour Woman of the Year.