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Aung San Suu Kyi
The heroes and role models that we have chosen to share with you today are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Current President of Liberia since January 17, 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a hardworking and caring woman which has be shown all through her life. She was the first woman to be elected head of state in Africa. She is also the award winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and of a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a very high civil award in the United States for her personal courage, dedication and commitments to improving people lives across Africa and trying to expand these peoples freedom. Through achieving this, she experienced a total of 10 years in jail and was sentenced to exile having to leave Liberia, but she never gave up pushing for human rights.
“Be not afraid to denounce injustice, though you may be outnumbered. Be not afraid to seek peace, even if your voice may be small. Be not afraid to demand peace” – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Aung San Suu Kyi has been a human rights leader for Burma since 1988. She has stood by her country and campaigned for the freedom and democracy of the people of Burma. Despite her efforts Suu Kyi was arrested by the government led by brutal dictator U Ne Win, the Junta military, and put under house arrest. During the two decades which spent under house arrest, she received a Nobel Peace Prize and was then later freed in November 2010.

Human rights are right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person and a human rights activist is someone who campaigns and fights for others basic rights and freedoms.
In Liberia, human rights were often abused. According to the 2010 Liberia human rights report, this is what was listed as rights that had been abused that year.
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Human rights abuses included one report of mob killing; reports of ritualistic killings; reported incidents of trial by ordeal; police abuse, harassment, and intimidation of detainees and others; harsh prison

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