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Betty Williams
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Betty Williams

Betty Williams
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1943 – 2020 (76 years old)

Militante de la paix nord-irlandaise, cofondatrice du mouvement Community of Peace People après le drame des enfants Maguire, prix Nobel de la paix 1976.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Ahmed Kathrada
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ahmed Kathrada

Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada
🇿🇦 South Africa
1929 – 2017 (87 years old)

Anti-apartheid veteran who was convicted alongside Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial and served twenty-six years in prison, dedicating his life to non-racialism.

Johannesburg, South Africa
Sir Nicholas George Winton
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sir Nicholas George Winton

Nicholas George Wertheim
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015 (106 years old)

Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Operating the Czech Kindertransport, he secured foster families in Britain and forged transit permits, keeping his heroic rescue a complete secret for fifty years until his wife discovered his notebook in their attic.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Gitta Sereny
Humanitarian & Peace
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Gitta Sereny

Gitta Sereny
🇦🇹 Austria
1921 – 2012 (91 years old)

Austrian-British investigative author and humanitarian journalist who worked with war-traumatized children following World War II and authored masterwork psychological explorations into the roots of human evil, including 'Into That Darkness'.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dorothy Irene Height
Humanitarian & Peace
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Dorothy Irene Height

Dorothy Height
🇺🇸 United States
1912 – 2010 (98 years old)

Présidente pendant quarante ans du National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), unique femme à siéger aux côtés des Big Six lors de la préparation de la Marche sur Washington de 1963.

Brentwood, Maryland, United States
Baba Amte
Humanitarian & Peace
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Baba Amte

Murlidhar Devidas Amte
🇮🇳 India
1914 – 2008 (93 years old)

Indian social activist and Gandhian visionary who founded Anandwan ('Forest of Joy'), transforming the lives of tens of thousands of ostracized leprosy patients.

Warora, India
Abbé Pierre
Humanitarian & Peace
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Abbé Pierre

Henri Antoine Grouès
🇫🇷 France
5 August 1912 – 22 January 2007 (94 years old)

Abbé Pierre (Henri Grouès) was a French Roman Catholic priest, WWII Resistance fighter, and deputy who founded the international Emmaüs movement in 1949 to combat homelessness and poverty. During the deadly winter of 1954, his famous radio broadcast 'Insurrection of Goodness' mobilized the French nation to build emergency shelters, making him France's most beloved moral icon for decades.

Esteville, Seine-Maritime, France
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