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CAMPAIGNERS

CAMPAIGNERS. Emmeline Pankhurst. Richard Pankhurst, Emmeline’s husband. Emmeline’s daughters Cristobel and Sylvia. A protest march. Emmeline’s arrest. In prison. Violent feeding during hunger strike.

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CAMPAIGNERS

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  1. CAMPAIGNERS

  2. Emmeline Pankhurst

  3. Richard Pankhurst, Emmeline’s husband

  4. Emmeline’s daughters Cristobel and Sylvia

  5. A protest march

  6. Emmeline’s arrest

  7. In prison

  8. Violent feeding during hunger strike

  9. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for equal rights, women’s rights and helped in the war.

  10. Leonid Roshal (1934) is a pediatrician, head of the Moscow Scientific Research Institute for Emergency Children’s Surgery and Traumatology and founder of an international aid organisation to help children in trouble.

  11. He took an active part in negotiating freedom for some hostages in the Dubrovka siege.

  12. He also acted as mediator when terrorists seized School №1 in Beslan in Sept ember 2004. He got the Reader’s Digest European of the Year award for his work in helping children.

  13. Leonid Roshal campaigns for children’s rights , against terrorism , worked to help children in trouble, deseased children.

  14. Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Russian physicist, the inventor of the Russian H-bomb. He also was a civil rights campaigner and a founder of the Soviet Human Rights Committee.

  15. He and protested against Soviet nuclear tests. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 .

  16. Yelena Bonner (1923-2011) was a human rights activist in the Soviet Union and wife of Andrei Sakharov.

  17. Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner campaigned for peace, human rights and freedom of speech, Andrei Sakharov also campaigned against war and Soviet nuclear tests.

  18. Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was born in Albania.

  19. She became an Irish nun and worked in India as a teacher and a nurse. She founded the Order of Missionaries to help the blind, deseasedand dying among Calcutta’s poor.

  20. She opened a leper colony, hospices, schools and children’s homes all over India. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 .

  21. Mother Teresa campaigned for peace, children’s rights, against war and worked to help the blind, deseasedand dying among the Indian poor.

  22. Nelson Mandela (1918- 2013) was a lawyer who joined the African National Congress.

  23. In 1962 he was arrested and was in prison until 1990. He became a symbol of fight against racist apartheid.

  24. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

  25. Nelson Mandela campaigned for peace, equal rights , against war and racism.

  26. Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was born in Georgia, the USA. He became a civil rights leader and Baptist Minister. He fought against segregationist policies.

  27. In 1963 he organised March on Washington and made a famous speech. Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was killed in 1968 by a white extremist.

  28. Martin Luther King campaigned for peace, equal rights , against war and racism.

  29. Mahatma Gahndi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi  (1869 –1948) was the leader of Indian nationalism in   British-ruled India.  Gandhi led India to independence and campaigned for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi also led campaigns against poverty, for women's rights

  30. Mahatma Gahndi campaigned for against poverty, for women's rights, civil rights , Indian independence and freedom, against British colonialism, he helped poorIndianpeasants

  31. Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer,1961 –1997) was well known for her fund-raising work for international charities and her support of the  International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

  32. She wanted to change people’s attitude to victims of AIDS and young people in prisoner’s families.

  33. Princess Diana campaigned for children’s rights, equal rights and peace, against landmines, war, helped victims of AIDS and young people in prisoner’s families, diseased children

  34. Dame Jane Morris- Goodall (born in 1934) is a British primatologist, ethnologist, anthropologist and UN Messenger of Peace. She’s the best expert on chimpanzees and the campaigner for animals’ rights.

  35. Jane Goodall campaigns for peace and animal’s rights, against war.

  36. Mikhail Gorbachev (born in 1931) was the first and the last President of the Soviet Union. He is famous for his policy of glasnost and perestroika and warmer relations with the USA. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. Together with the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin he gave political powers to the Soviet Union’s republics.

  37. Mikhail Gorbachev campaigned for freedom of speech ( glasnost ), independence, peace, against war

  38. PavelAstakhov(born in1966)  is a Russian politician, celebrity lawyer, writer   and  television personality. • In 2009  he became the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation.

  39. Pavel Astakhov campaigns for children’s rights, helps children in trouble.

  40. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)was an American writer. Her novel ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin’ was a description of life for African Americans in slavery

  41. Harriet Beecher Stowe campaigned for equal rights, against slavery.

  42. Brigitte Anne-Marie Bordot( born in 1934 in Paris) was a French actress, singer and fashion model. Now she is an animal rights activist.

  43. Brigitte Bordot campaigns for animal rights.

  44. Samantha Reed Smith (1972-1985) was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress who became famous in the Cold War era United States and Soviet Union.

  45. In 1982 she wrote a letter to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union General Secretary Yuri Andropov and was invited to theSoviet Union . She became known as America’s youngest ‘Goodwill Ambassador’.

  46. Samantha Smith campaigned for peace, against cold war.

  47. Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist and advocate for women’s rights. In 1911 she organised the first international Women’s Day.

  48. Clara Zetkin campaigned for women’s rights.

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